C.J. Hribal – Jittery Omniscience: Strategies for the Squeamish (Jan. 1993)

C.J. Hribal explores “jittery omniscience”—a darting in and out of an omniscient perspective—and identifies structural, confessional, and accidental approaches to this point of view in works from Gogol and Chekhov to Kundera and Erdrich. The jittery qualities of omniscience, Hribal says, are a “shrewd choice on multiple levels, all having to do with discontinuity and judgment.”