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Title:

The Complexities of the Narrator Persona in Historiography – the Case of Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae

ORCID:

0000-0002-3418-9767

Subject and Keywords:

narratology   narrator   narratee   narrative text   story   fabula   historiography   Thucydides   Sallust

Abstract:

This paper explores the complex persona of the narrator in historiographic texts. It would seem that in historiography, the narrator should be a rather straightforward notion, since it is generally assumed that historiographic texts ideally represent something that actually happened in the past. A historiographic narrator should be, according to the prevailing doctrines, a reliable and coherent intratextual function that must always stay outside the reported story, which bestows on him/her a cloak of omniscience. Yet in some of the most important historical works, the narrator proves to be less than a stable and reliable instance.

Publisher:

Pracownia Badań nad Tradycją Oralną

Date issued:

2015-

Resource Type:

text

Detailed Type:

journal

Identifier:

ISSN 2449–8181

Language:

eng   pol

Rights holder:

Copyright by Instytut Studiów Klasycznych, Sródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych, Pracowania Badan nad Tradycja Oralna, 2016