Essays about: "Unreliable Narration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Unreliable Narration.

1. 1. Pre-Existing Film Music Re:sourced : Technical Aspects and Narratological Implications of Audible Diegetic Transitions in Joker and Other Films

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

   Author : Martin Danstål Skiöld; [2023]
   Keywords : film music; technical aspects; narratological implications; audible diegetic transitions; transaural displacements; diegetic; non-diegetic; intra-diegetic; meta-diegetic; supra-diegetic; trans-diegetic; sound advance; bridge; lag; story; discourse; instant; gradual; emotive; grounding; narrow; wide; Joker; Baby Driver; Coda; Guardians of the Galaxy; Star Wars;

   Abstract : This thesis concerns itself with a phenomenon found in film music that can be described as audible diegetic transitions. In short, an audible diegetic transition occurs when film music shifts from one implied musical placement to another by changing its pre­sented sound quality. READ MORE

3. 2. “We Did Not Trust Ourselves” : A study of the unreliable narration in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Filip Mattsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Annihilation; Jeff VanderMeer; perception; unreliable narrator; science fiction; horror;

   Abstract : Annihilation is the first novel in the trilogy named “The Southern Reach,” a ScienceFiction/Horror series of books written by Jeff VanderMeer. Annihilation focuses on a team of scientists on an expedition into an area where the very nature has been altered in mysterious ways. READ MORE

4. 3. “Imitating Reality”: An Analysis of “American Psycho”

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sana Sadraddin Mahiddin; [2020]
   Keywords : American Psycho; Postmodernism; Narratology; serial killers;

   Abstract : This paper analyzes Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991), and more specifically, the protagonist-narrator Patrick Bateman. He is analyzed through the theoretical framework known as narratology, and more specifically, the designation of “unreliable narrator,” in order to analyze the interplay between the character and the postmodernist society of which he is a product. READ MORE

5. 4. What loving Gatsby does to the narration of a novel

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Elna Olofsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay examines the narration in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby by posting that the novel’s narrator, Nick Carraway, is unreliable and in love with protagonist Jay Gatsby. READ MORE

6. 5. An Imperfect World, Imperfectly Retold : Mimetic Uncertainty in Early, Late, and Meta-Modern Fiction

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Brott; [2020]
   Keywords : Mimetic Uncertainty; Uncertain Narration; Unreliable Narration; Realism; Modernism; Metamodernism; Reflexivity; Virginia Woolf; Tao Lin; Daniel Defoe.;

   Abstract : Proposing the concept of mimetic uncertainty, this project aims to provide a critical inquiry into the correspondence of unreliable narration and realism. Building on Springett (2013) and Olsen (2003), a distinction between narratorial unreliability and uncertainty is proposed to denote whether a narrator explicitly signals an awareness of their fallible narration. READ MORE