Ann Banfield
Ann Banfield is Professor Emerita in the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction (1982; 2014) and The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism (2000) and the translator of Jean-Claude Milner's L'Amour de la langue (1990). She has published articles on represented speech and thought ("free indirect style") and tense in narrative, as well as on Jane...See more
Ann Banfield is Professor Emerita in the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction (1982; 2014) and The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism (2000) and the translator of Jean-Claude Milner's L'Amour de la langue (1990). She has published articles on represented speech and thought ("free indirect style") and tense in narrative, as well as on Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and William Morris, in New Literary History, Poetics Today, Diacritics and Yale French Studies.Sylvie Patron is Maitre de Conferences Habilitee in French Language and Literature at the University of Paris Diderot. She is the author of Le Narrateur: Introduction a la theorie narrative (2009; 2016) and La Mort du narrateur et autres essais (2015), among other books, and has edited several collections on narrative theory in both French and English. She has also translated articles on linguistics and narrative theory into French, including S.-Y. Kuroda's Pour une theorie poetique de la narration (2012), issued in English as Toward a Poetic Theory of Narration: Essays by S.-Y. Kuroda (2014). She is Vice-President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. See less
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