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Unreliable narrators are merely one thread in that knot, but a discourse about the unreliable narrator as a construct in the documentary form is nevertheless a vital component of these larger conversations. Whether in literature, film, or theoretical essays, the unreliable narrator most often appears in the context of fictional storytelling ...
From being a primarily moral and text-internal matter (for Booth the unreliable narrator was defined by its deviating moral standard compared to that of the implied author), some in contemporary narratology (see A. Nünning 1997a, 1998a, 1998b, 1999; V. Nünning 1998; Zerweck 2001; and Cohn 2000) tend to define it as a readerdependent issue: a narrator’s (un)reliability is not a matter of ...
6 de abr. de 2024 · Exploring the intricate world of narrative techniques, the concept of the unreliable narrator stands out as a unique and powerful tool in literature. It refers to a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised, challenging the reader’s ability to distinguish between reality and the character’s potentially distorted perspective.
the memoirist can employ unreliable narration intratexually as a rhetorical tool. The paper begins with some examples of how the unreliable narrator is used, interpreted, misused and misinterpreted. The device’s troubled history is examined—Wayne Booth and James Phelan have argued for an encoded strategy on the part of the (implied) author
is fallible. (Fiction 158-60)7. The above definitions demonstrate that Booth envisages different types of unreliabil ity. "Unreliable" and "untrustworthy" suggest that the narrator deviates from the general normative standards implicit in the text. For this reason the narrator cannot be trusted on a personal level.
The paper argues that the concept "unreliable narrator" needs to be radically rethought because, as currently defined, it is terminologically imprecise and theoretically inadequate. The first part of the article is devoted to giving an assessment and critique of the standard notions of the unreliable narrator, arguing that the postulation of essentialized and anthropomorphized entities ...
11 de oct. de 2005 · Wayne C. Booth, one of the pre-eminent literary critics of the second half of the 20th century, ... among them "implied author" and "unreliable narrator."
