Rashi’s Literary Outlook as Reflected in his Conception of the Biblical Narrator: His use of the term ha-meshorer (“the poet”) and its impact in the northern French peshat school.

Abstract

This study, however, will focus on Rashi’s distinctive use of the term ha-meshorer (“the poet”) to express his conception of a narrator or implied author, a literary construct, an imagined persona who arranges—and “speaks” in—the biblical text. (from Introduction)