Essays about: "Unreliable narrator"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 22 essays containing the words Unreliable narrator.

  1. 6. 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

  3. 7. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RELIABILITY OF JANE EYRE: The Narrating Self’s Function in the Novel

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Zdravka Katinic; [2019-05-06]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Charlotte Brontë; narratology; psychoanalytic criticism;

    Abstract : The fact that Charlotte Brontë intended Jane Eyre as an autobiography is easily overlooked. Therefore, one tends to not take into account that the stated author Jane Rochester is technically both the main character and narrator of the story. READ MORE

  4. 8. The Selectiveness of Nick Carraway : The Unreliable Narrator in The Great Gatsby

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Windy Daniel; [2019]
    Keywords : Reliability; narratology; selectiveness; concealment; censorship; memory; drunkenness;

    Abstract : Many scholars have argued back and forth regarding the reliability of the narrator Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most well-known novel The Great Gatsby. Nick’s attention to detail in his narrative is the element due to which many scholars argue in favour of his reliability. One of these scholars is Wayne C. READ MORE

  5. 9. Reoression, Defense Mechanisms and the Unreliability of Stevens' Narration in the Remains of the Day

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Lulu Guo; [2018]
    Keywords : Repression; defense mechanisms; un reliable narrator; discourse; the un conscious; butler; Kazuo Ishiguro; The Remains of the Day;

    Abstract : This essay argues that repression and defense mechanisms contribute to the unreliability of Stevens’ narrationthrough three aspects: Stevens’ uncertainty of certain memories, his failure to report certain scenescorrectly and his defensive, self-contradictory discourse. There is no single best way to define what is consideredreliable and what is unreliable in narratology because the complexity of fictional characters will renderdifferent kinds of unreliability. READ MORE

  6. 10. HANDING THE REINS TO THE TRICKSTER: A Narratological Analysis of the Construction of Reliability in Joanne M. Harris’ The Gospel of Loki

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Frida Andreasson; [2016-09-16]
    Keywords : Joanne M. Harris; Loki; Narratology; Reliability;

    Abstract : How can a reader believe anything the narrator says when the narrator is an infamous trickster? The Gospel of Loki (2014) tells the Edda-stories from the Norse Trickster God Loki’s viewpoint, providing a unique perspective on the Norse myths. For the presented plot to be valid the narrator has to be trusted to tell the truth; he has to be a reliable narrator. READ MORE