Narrative unreliability in the twentieth-century first-person novel / edited by Elke D'hoker, Gunther Martens.
Material type: TextSeries: Narratologia ; 14.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 338 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783110209389
- 3110209381
- Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- First person narrative -- History and criticism
- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
- Récits à la première personne -- Histoire et critique
- Mensonge dans la littérature
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Fiction
- First person narrative
- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
- Unzuverlässigkeit
- Ich-Form
- Roman
- 1900-1999
- 809.304 22 22
- PN3383.P64 N37 2008eb
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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.
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.
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