Is this then the origin of the term or can older instances be found elsewhere? By convention the author is allowed his universal knowledge of the story and the people in it. Who is disposing the scattered facts, whose is this new point of view? It is the omniscient author, and the point of view is his-such would be the common answer, and it is the answer we get in Vanity Fair. The book contains the following statement in a discussion of a Thackeray's Vanity Fair ( page 115): Percy Lubbock published The Craft of Fiction in 1921. The novelist, he says, can either describe the characters from the outside, as an impartial or partial onlooker or he can assume omniscience and describe them from within (…). In a Google Books preview I find the following quote: Forster's Aspects of the Novel, published in 1927, looked like another candidate. Unfortunately, a search using the terms "omniscient narrator" goodman "structure of literature" provides no results from Paul Goodman's book, which is out of print, so this turned out to be a dead end.Į. "In novels we identify with the omniscient narrator" (Goodman, Structure of Literature, p.
Footnote 4 in the chapter "Telling as Showing" says, Booth coined the term unreliable narrator in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), I found that Booth also mentions the term "omniscient narrator" in the same publication. My first searches on Google Books and Google Scholar provided no answers, or at least none in publications that I can access online. I have been trying to find out who coined the term and in which publication but I have had no success so far. A third person omniscient narrator conveys information from multiple characters, places, and events of the story, including any given characters' thoughts, and a third person limited narrator conveys the knowledge and subjective experience of just one character.
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