Feminist Narratology

Which types of voice does Lanser establish?

• Authorial voice

• Personal voice

• Communal voice

• Autodiegetic voice

2. The personal voice has the highest degree of narrative authority.

• Right

• Wrong

3. Pick the characteristics that belong to the authorial voice  

• • Narrator is identical with a character

• • Comments on the characters and the action

• • Has traditionally been marked as masculine

4. Pick characteristics that belong to the personal voice

• Identical to one of the characters on the story level

• Equivalent to heterodiegetic narrator 

• Appears to be telling his or her own story

Give an example of one of the three types of communal voices

Answer explanation

1. 1. Narrator who uses first person plural pronoun ‘we’ to refer to himself/herself”.

2. 2. Alternation between several different narrators who are members of a particular community or group to be a communal voice. 

3. 3. May appear in the guise of a single speaker, provided this voice is marked as being representative of a particular community.

Are feminist/gender-conscious narratologies considered valid in today’s academic discussions? 

• Yes

• No