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Outline of Presentation
1. What is POV? Looking From / Looking At
2. Points of View in Fiction: The Standard Account
2.1 Levels of POV in Fiction
2.2 Single POV
2.3 Limited POV
2.4 Omniscient POV
3. “Objective” Style and Mind-Reading
4. Interactions of POV / Person / Tense
5. “Rules” and Practices
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6. The POV Character v. The Protagonist
7. Choosing a Point of View
8. Character and POV
9. Additional Topics
9.1 Aesthetic Distance
9.2 Reliable and Unreliable Narrators
10.Exercises (optional)
11.Selected Quotations (.doc only)
1 What is POV? Looking From / Looking At
“How the story is told”
“Method and perspective”
But we need to be more specific than that …
Think of Yourself a Camera
But with sometimes faulty perception
With a personality
With a predisposition to see some things and not others, and in certain ways
With a goal of telling a certain story, a certain kind of story
And with a point of view. Where is the point of view (looking from /
looking to) in ……….
Levels of Points of View
Actual Readers
The Writer’s Ideal Reader
The Narrator Inside the Story
The Writer Writing a Specific Piece
The Individual Who Writes, Sometimes
The Narrative Voice of the Piece
Human Beings in General
The Writer When He’s ‘Being a
Writer’
3 The ‘Objective’ Style - What it is; How to Use It
“Rob looked at his wife. ‘She’s so unhappy,’ he thought. He wondered what to say.”
How could this be effectively written in the ‘Objective’ style?
The ‘Objective’ style can be effective:
“Maude gave Jimmy a big smile and hugged him. ‘I love you,’ she said.”
But this kind of narrative is possible within an overall mind-reading style, too.
Single POV Limited POV Omniscient POV
First Person Frequent in short Infrequent in any Infrequent in any use;stories; used in a few use, May be jolting may become tedious
famous novels when POVs are switched
Third Person Frequent in short Frequent in novels; Frequent in shortstories and novels some use in short stories and novels
stories
Present tense Frequent in short Uncommon; may Uncommon; maystories become tedious become tedious
Past tense Frequent in short Frequent in short Frequent in shortstories and novels stories and novels stories and novels
4 POV in Relation to Person and Tense
6 The POV Character v The Protagonist
POV is the Protagonist
POV is a “Buddy” of the Protagonist
POV is Some Other Character
POV is an Impersonal Narrator Not Present in the Story’s Action
POV is an Intrusive External Narrator; Is a Voice in the Story
7 Choosing A Point Of View
What you want your story to accomplish
What depth of character you want to portray
How you want to present your characters
How each major character relates to the others
What POV is best suited to the plot
Are there two main characters pitted against each other?
AND many other considerations