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What does the narrator's encoded subjectivity do to our understanding…

- - - - Knowing the narrator "provides an entry to the novel's inner workings."
        (book review quoted on p. 1)
    - - These are terms that are used to describe objects/events in their spatio-temporal (and, by extension, emotional) relation to the person who uses them
        (p. 5)
        
        Distal
        you, there, that
        
        Proximal
        I, here, this
    - - When they did create new details for a story, they tended to be for the purpose of explaining the "facts" that had already been established in previous versions (22)
      - Medieval poets did not invent the stories they told; they recounted stories, adding their personal commentary when they performed the role of storyteller (21)
        
        This marks a fundamental difference between the medieval poet and novelist
    - - Performance being an aspect of stories on both a physical and metaphysical plane
      - "The medieval premise seems to be that stories simply exist in their own right." (p. 25)
      - Auditory performance of stories was more common (not as necessity, but as social pleasure) - "both the structure and the local effects of medieval poetry must have been designed with listeners as well as readers in mind." (p. 10)
  - - - Appropriate for an oral delivery of the Sir Gawain, which it no doubt was delivered in this way (137)
        
        "There is much textual mimesis of oral delivery in its manner of storytelling."
        
        Narrative function?
      - Narrator is present and narration is still subjective in nature, but we are not incited to identify the narrator as a specific fictional character
        
        The use of first- and second-person expressions to establish the "process of telling, judging, and response that invite our participation" (137). Deictics
        
        This is me emphasizing the INVITE OUR PARTICIPATION part
        
        The text is in conversation with us (!!!!)
        
        (Note to self - read except)
    - - Active storytelling! Fun!
      - The creation of a narrative encoded with the narrator's subjective perspective (rather than the subjective perspective of a/the character(s), which we see constantly in lit outside of the middle ages) merges the spheres of fiction with the deliverance of fiction
- - - - Number 5?
        
        Potato?