TY - JOUR ID - 420 TI - Engaging Strategies in Adam Bede JO - Teaching English as a Second Language Quarterly (Formerly Journal of Teaching Language Skills) JA - TESL LA - en SN - AU - Sasani, Samira AU - Abjadian, Amrollah AU - Pourgiv, Farideh AU - Ghasemi, Parivn AD - Ph. D. candidate Shiraz University, Shiraz AD - Professor Shiraz University, Shiraz AD - Associate Professor Shiraz University, Shiraz Y1 - 2012 PY - 2012 VL - 29 IS - 3 SP - 163 EP - 188 KW - 1. Narrator 2. Adam Bede 3. Narrative strategies 4. Engaging narrators 5. Distancing narrators DO - 10.22099/jtls.2012.420 N2 - One of the narrative strategies employed in different ways by men and women writers is the presentation of narrator. The significance of narrator is so much that it differentiates between the realistic and non-realistic fiction and specifically men's and women's writings in realistic fiction. Robyn R Warhol's theory based on Genette's is applied to Adam Bede by George Eliot to focus on woman as writer. Warhol specifies five touchstones for distinguishing engaging and distancing narrators which consist of 1) The degree of irony present in references to the narratee; 2)The frequency of direct address to the narratee; 3)The names by which the narratee is addressed; 4)The narrator's stance toward the characters; 5)The narrator's implicit or explicit attitude towards the act of narration. These five touchstones are examined in Adam Bede to come to the conclusion about the nature of the narrator, whether engaging or distancing. UR - https://tesl.shirazu.ac.ir/article_420.html L1 - https://tesl.shirazu.ac.ir/article_420_32549dff8384847dc7e49300ae0e3c4a.pdf ER -