Likewise, although types of narrato

Likewise, although types of narrators and voices are sometimes described spatially because of the metaphor of the narrator’s perspective being contained “within” that of the author,38 spatial renderings of the relations between voices or types of speech within a text are extremely rare.39 It seems to me an obvious but rarely observed fact that characters are spatialized in critical discourse because we are used to thinking about people as located within space. Narratology depends on an understanding of bodies largely alien to each other and to their environment—the sort of radical spatial separation of bodies that I described in the previous section in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Through this alienation they become distinct objects and enter into a thematic system of contrast.