Essays about: "Unreliable narrator"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 22 essays containing the words Unreliable narrator.

  1. 16. The Unreliable Narrator Caught on Film

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Johan Karlsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Kazuo; Ishiguro; Unreliable; Narration; Adaptation; Adaption; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay deals with the point of view in both the novel The Remains of the Day and the adaptation of it into film.... READ MORE

  3. 17. Unreliable Narration and the Portrayal of Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Linda Melkner Moser; [2012]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Charlotte Brontë; Bertha Mason; Bertha Rochester; narratology; unreliable narration; unreliable narrator;

    Abstract : This essay investigates the narration in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre by applying narratologist Great Olson’s model of unreliable narration to Jane, the novel’s narrator. Further, the novel discusses how Jane’s reliability affects the portrayal of the character Bertha Mason. READ MORE

  4. 18. Deprivation of Closure in McEwan's Atonement : Unreliability and Metafiction as Underlying Causes

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Rebecka Sjöberg; [2012]
    Keywords : McEwan; closure; unreliable narrator; metafiction;

    Abstract : The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to discuss, and attempt to confirm, that Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) lacks closure. Since the novel has an unreliable narrator who offers her readers several credible endings to her narrative, and who also acts as the fictitious author of the story, unreliability and metafiction are claimed to be the main underlying causes of this deprivation of closure. READ MORE

  5. 19. The Reader as Co-Author : Uses of Indeterminacy in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : David Persson; [2010]
    Keywords : Indeterminacy; Henry James; The Turn of the Screw; Unreliable narrator; Ambiguity;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to explore how different means are used to create indeterminate meaning in Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw. It suggests that the indeterminacy creates gaps in the text which the reader is required to fill in during the reading process, and that this indeterminacy is achieved chiefly through the use of an unreliable narrator and of ambiguity in the way the narrator relates the events that take place. READ MORE

  6. 20. Mr Gatsby's Illusory Greatness

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Johanna Svensson; [2009]
    Keywords : Gatsby; Fitzgerald; unreliable narrator; Carraway; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay explores the theory that Nick Carraway is an unreliable narrator, who creates the "greatness" of Mr Gatsby, based on the hypothesis that Carraway is partial to Gatsby for various reasons.... READ MORE