Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel

Elke D'hoker, Gunther Martens, Elke D'hoker, Gunther Martens

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9783110206302
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110209389
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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Table of 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
• 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