Reconsidering the concept of the narrator in narratology

Narratology incorporates techniques developed and impelled by the French structuralism prevailing in the 1960s. It has become a new orientation in the development of contemporary theory of fiction. Applying numerous traditional linguistic approaches of studying literary works, narratology belongs to the overlapping or frontier discipline. Under the guide of narratological theory, this article attempts to present the author's own perception and understanding of such assumptions as the features and nature of the narrator and clear up some confused ideas about the nature of the first person narrator vis-a-vis the third person narrator as well as narrative subject vis-a-vis narrative object, through which this article hopes to contribute to bettering the reader's appreciation of the text and improving his ability in evaluating and analyzing the fiction.