There can be little doubt, I think,

There can be little doubt, I think, that narratology has been fascinated by these types of mixed voices within a text, and that this fascination is one of the central aesthetic principles of modern narrative and one of the assumptions of contemporary narratology. Seymour Chatman has recently complained about voice as a “metaphor that continues to be widely used but insufficiently examined by narratology, functioning centrally in such otherwise divergent theories as Gérard Genett’s and Mikhail Bakhtin’s, Wayne Booth’s and Franz Stanzel’s.”27