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Revisions for Perspective – Point of View

Revision	Operations
24. September 2013 by Wilhelm Schernus	current revision
30. June 2013 by Jan Horstmann
6. May 2013 by Jan Horstmann
18. February 2013 by Jan Horstmann

Definition
Explication
History of the Concept and Its Study
From James to Stanzel: Pre-Structuralist Typologies
Genette and His Critics
Parameters, Perspective Structure and the Foregrounding of Perspective
Topics for Further Investigation
Bibliography
Works Cited
Further Reading

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