First Person Central

Point of View in Creative Writing

In this course, Professor Lars Iyer (University of Newcastle) explores the role of point of view in creative writing. In the first module we introduce point of view, and look at the first person central narrator. In the send module, we consider another first person point of view: first person peripheral. In the third module we examine the effects of using multiple first-person narrators and writing in a stream of consciousness style, before turning to third person perspectives in the fourth module. In the fifth and final module, we finish by looking at the second person.

First Person Central

In this module, we introduce point of view, and look at first person central, focusing in particular on (i) defining point of view (ii) first-person perspective (iii) benefits of writing in the first-person (iv) first-person central (v) unreliable narrators (vi) applying first-person perspective effectively in writing.