While developing a theory of narrat

While developing a theory of narrative bodies in characterization we will find that narratology has again relied on a historically limited understanding of the body as an object of analysis. We saw in chapter 1 that these historical reflections lead us to find general hermeneutic issues that a corporeal narratology raised. We will see the same thing when we consider narrative characters, where interpretive problems raised by the taxonomy of characters will ultimately be resolved only by broadening our understanding of the human body in narrative and by considering how these character bodies mediate between text and reader.