TY - BOOK AU - D'hoker,Elke AU - Martens,Gunther TI - Narrative unreliability in the twentieth-century first-person novel T2 - Narratologia SN - 9783110209389 AV - PN3383.P64 N37 2008eb U1 - 809.304 22 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Berlin, New York PB - De Gruyter KW - Fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - First person narrative KW - Truthfulness and falsehood in literature KW - Récits à la première personne KW - Histoire et critique KW - Mensonge dans la littérature KW - TRAVEL KW - Special Interest KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - General KW - fast KW - Unzuverlässigkeit KW - gnd KW - Ich-Form KW - Roman KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and the Ethics of Lolita; Reconceptualizing the Theory, History and Generic Scope of Unreliable Narration: Towards a Synthesis of Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches; Revising and Extending the Scope of the Rhetorical Approach to Unreliable Narration; Sincerity, Reliability and Other Ironies -- Notes on Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Werfel, Weiss and Co. Unreliable Narration in Austrian Literature of the Interwar Period N2 - This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The different articles in this collection approach this topic both from the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions, characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the different uses to which unreliability has been put in different contexts, poetical tr UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=274248 ER -