Contemporary fiction evicts third-person narration through privatized perspective

Evidence

Having mapped these many economic bases of immediacy as literary style, it remains to offer some more specifications of what immediacy looks like on the page. We have seen in autofiction that voice offers itself as the auratic solidity reverberating across the plain of grafted genres. In the novel at large, a privatization of perspective evicts third-person narration, while this demediation homogenizes literary creation across the personal essay, the self-help industry, and self-facing media technologies. All this industrial expanse, pressure against fiction, and ecstatic preoccupation with “and-ness” culminates in forms and syntaxes of blur, distinction-defying effusive immediations. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 167

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the formal signature ‘privatization of perspective’ — a concrete feature to spot in real works.
• XREF: connects to: Point of view as a category cannot apply to pre-modern narrative forms — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 703