POINT-OF-VIEW and OTHER ODDITIES

In some ways, contemporary storytellers’ concerns with point-of-view are the great-great-great grandchildren (and a couple dozen more greats if you wish) of ancient writers’ concerns for Unity. In the Poetics, Aristotle defined three Unities as essential for Tragedy: Unity of Action, that is, that there be a single plot, with as few subplots as possible—ideally [...]