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Title Narrative unreliability in the twentieth-century first-person novel / edited by Elke D'hoker, Gunther Martens
Published Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 338 pages)
Series Narratologia ; 14
Narratologia ; 14.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis First-Person Novel
Narrative Theory
Unreliable Narrator
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
First person narrative -- History and criticism
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Fiction
First person narrative
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
Unzuverlässigkeit
Ich-Form
Roman
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author D'hoker, Elke.
Martens, Gunther, 1976-
LC no. 2008033215
ISBN 9783110209389
3110209381