There is something bold about a story that starts with “I.” It doesn’t wait for permission. It pulls you in, hands you the narrator’s shoes, and says, “Walk with me.” First-person point of view is one ...

Since a song is such a short form, songwriters forever face the challenge of transmitting a lot of information in a very short duration of time. The use of voice — telling the song by first person, ...

Some wag once called the book of Deuteronomy “the Torah reading’s version of summer reruns” because significant sections of its narrative review what we have previously read in the fall, winter and ...

The house of fiction has many windows, but only two or three doors. I can tell a story in the third person or in the first person, and perhaps in the second person singular, or in the first person ...

Style, Vol. 54, No. 1, Special Issue: We-Narratives and We-Discourses across Genres (2020), pp. 1-6 (6 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325/style.54.1.0001 • https://www ...

Gitte Marianne Hansen received funding from AHRC. Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel, The City and its Uncertain Walls, revolves around two parallel stories, one focusing on a 17-year-old boy, the ...

Hal Ketchum recorded Gary Burr’s song “In Front Of The Alamo” in 2007. Point of view is the single most important decision you make early in the development of your song: Who is talking? To whom? And ...