Essays about: "James Phelan"

Found 3 essays containing the words James Phelan.

  1. 1. Character Narrators, the Implied Author, and the Authorial Audience: A Rhetorical and Ethical Reading of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Linda Melkner Moser; [2020]
    Keywords : Octavia Butler; Parable of the Sower; Parable of the Talents; James Phelan; the implied author; character narrators; narrators; authorial audience; rhetorical narrative theory; rhetoric ethics; ethics; rhetoric; rhetoric of character narration; Lauren Olamina; Olamina; Earthseed; epistolary novels; narrative theory;

    Abstract : This essay considers the interplay between character narrators, the implied author, and the authorial audience in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents. The aim of the study was to investigate how narrators, the implied author, and readers position themselves in relation to each other and in relation to the novel’s ethical dimensions. READ MORE

  3. 2. The unreliability of Dr. Sheppard and Humbert Humbert : A study of the unreliable narrators in Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Nabokov’s Lolita

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Göran Häljestam; [2016]
    Keywords : English Literature; Unreliable narrator; Lolita; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; Nabokov; Christie;

    Abstract : The concept of the unreliable narrator has been studied in academic circles for the last fifty years. When an author decides to create unreliable narration, there is a reason for it. READ MORE

  4. 3. Unreliable narration in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Jeff Lindsay's Darkly Dreaming Dexter

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Robin Lundberg; [2015]
    Keywords : unreliable narration; Patrick Bateman; Dexter Morgan;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on the character Patrick Bateman in American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and his unreliability as a narrator and compares it to the unreliable narration of the character Dexter Morgan in Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. These characters' respective unreliability is analyzed from the perspective of six types of unreliability suggested by James Phelan and Mary Patricia Martin: misreporting, misreading, misregarding, underreporting, underreading and underregarding. READ MORE