Jane Austen, Persuasion: Irony and the Mysterious Vagaries of Narrative - Professor Belinda Jack

Gresham College

Narrative, the way a tale is told, is less straightforward than we might suppose. http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and... Austen handles irony brilliantly and systematically exploited new ways of narrating, including free indirect discourse. This lecture explores why Austen's way of narrating are