TY - BOOK ID - 53463186 TI - Authorial divinity in the twentieth century : omniscient narration in Woolf, Hemingway, and others PY - 1997 SN - 0838753167 9780838753163 PB - Lewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University Press DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) KW - Point of view (Literature) KW - Fiction writing KW - Metafiction KW - Writing, Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Technique KW - Woolf, Virginia, KW - Hemingway, Ernest, KW - Hemingway, Ernest KW - Kheminguėĭ, Ėrnest KW - Hai-ming-wei, KW - Hemingvej, Ernest KW - Hemingwei KW - Hīminjwāy, Arnist KW - Ḣeminguei̐, E. KW - Ḣeminguei̐, Ernest KW - Heminguej, Ernest KW - Heminguej, E. KW - Hemingṿey, Ernesṭ KW - Haminghwāy, Arnist KW - Hayminghwāy, Arnis, KW - Himinghwāy, Arnist KW - Himinghwāy, KW - Hemingvejs, Ernests KW - Hemingṿe, Ernesṭ KW - Chemingouaiē, Ernest KW - Heminguwei, Ānesuto KW - Haimingwei, Eneisite KW - Haimingwei, Ouneisite KW - Haimingwei, Ennasite KW - Hemingwei, Ŏnesŭtʻŭ KW - Хемингуэй, Эрнест KW - Хемингуэй, Э. М. KW - המינגווי, ארנסט KW - המינגווי, ארנסט, KW - המינגוי, ארנסט KW - המינגוי, ארנסט, KW - העמינגוועי, ערנעסט KW - 海明威, KW - E. ヘミングウェイ, KW - همنغواي، ارنست KW - همينگوى، ارنست KW - ヘミングウェイ, アーネスト, KW - 헤밍웨이, 어네스트, KW - 海明威, 欧内斯特, KW - Chaiminkouaiē, Ernest KW - Woolf, Virginia KW - Woolf, Virginia Stephen, KW - Stephen, Virginia, KW - Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, KW - Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, KW - Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, KW - Вулф, Вирджиния, KW - וולף, וירג׳יניה KW - וולף, וירג׳יניה, KW - Stephen, Adeline Virginia, KW - Technique. KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:53463186 AB - Whatever a writer's religious assumptions and histories, the literary device of omniscient narration traps a writer into a pose as God, at least some sort of God, be it one the writer eschews, avows, or longs for. In this study, Barbara K. Olson examines the relationship between both the writer and the omniscient narrator to God. Olson explains how modernists Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf both illustrate how authors' particular styles of omniscience bear a reliable though variable relation to their own or their culture's particular conceptions of God. The experience of novelists generally attests to perennial theological conundrums into which their creating and narrating have cast them - transcendence vs. immanence, providential care vs. cosmic capriciousness, determinism vs. freedom. Not surprisingly, such atheists as John Fowles and Ronald Sukenick have aimed their narrational experiments in omniscience at subverting what Fowles has called the "godgame" that this device requires. Such other writers as Flannery O'Connor, Graham Greene, and Murial Spark have predictably relied on the device as one consonant with their theistic assumptions. ER -