About the Author

Paul Dawson is senior lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Reviews

"Although many writers, as well as critics and narratologists, are well aware of the contested nature and limitations of both omniscience as a phenomenon and omniscient modes of storytelling, Paul Dawson demonstrates not only that these modes, which were virtually abandoned by modernist fiction, returned in many novels in the twenty-first century, but also that they have served to reclaim the narrative and cultural authority of the authors in question and of the novel and literature at large." --Ansgar Nunning