The Narrative Situation in Daniel Defoe's "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner"
Jonathan Vogel
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: In the following I will analyse, in how far the narrative situation in Robinson Crusoe supports the classification as a spiritual autobiography, on the basis of Franz K. Stanzel's Typological Circle. The narrative situation in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is of strident importance, because it has a massive affect on the way how the story is presented. According to Franz K. Stanzel's Typological Circle it can generally be said that the novel has a first-person narrative situation and an internal perspective because the narrator is part of the story.
