Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel /

Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel / / ed. by Elke D'hoker, Gunther Martens.

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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 que...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Badir, Yasmine,
Bernaerts, Lars,
Bossche, Bart,
Brems, Elke,
Bruyn, Dieter,
D’Hoker, Elke,
Herman, Luc,
Jedlčiková, Alice,
Jongeneel, Els,
Kindt, Tom,
Korthals Altes, Liesbeth,
Krogh Hansen, Per,
Martens, Gunther,
Nünning, Ansgar,
Phelan, James,
Vervaeck, Bart,
HerausgeberIn:
D'hoker, Elke,
Martens, Gunther,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory , 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (338 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • 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
  • Unreliability between Mimesis and Metaphor: The works of Kazuo Ishiguro
  • A Sophisticated Form of Lying: Hugo Claus and the Poetics of Unreliability
  • ‘Un Fou Raisonnant et Imaginant’. Madness, Unreliability and The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
  • An Eye for an I. Telling as Reading in Bruno Schulz’s Fiction
  • Didn’t Know Any Better: Race and Unreliable Narration in “Low-Lands” (1960) by Thomas Pynchon
  • Unreliability in Italian Modernist Fiction: The Cases of Italo Svevo and Luigi Pirandello
  • “He” Who Knows Better Than “I”: Reactivating Unreliable Narration in Philip Roth’s Human Stain and Jean Echenoz’ Nous trois
  • An Unreliable Narrator in an Unreliable World. Negotiating between Rhetorical Narratology, Cognitive Studies and Possible Worlds Theory
  • The Deconstruction of the First-Person Narrator in the French New Novel
  • First Person, Present Tense. Authorial Presence and Unreliable Narration in Simultaneous Narration

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