(fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/5/2011 11:51 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 11:44:34AM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >
> > *Is there a better term for the first-person protagonist of a song?
> > It's not necessarily "the singer", "the songwriter", or the person
> > whose point of view is represented (which may be a third/second
> > person). Talk about lexical gaps!
>
>I'd go with "narrator", "speaker", or in some contexts "persona".

I don't think the literary critics have come up with anything better,
considering the many uses I see of "narrator".


>Jesse Sheidlower
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