Narrative voice, focalisation and reliability

What this note covers

1. Separate the speaker from the writer
2. Distinguish voice from focalisation
3. Recognise represented thought and free indirect discourse
4. Build a reliability judgement from patterns
5. Analyse distance, time and the narrating self
6. Compare perspectives without flattening difference
7. Perspective workshop: one event, two accounts and competing priorities
8. Retrospective voice clinic: memory, evidence and the need for certainty

8 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes