Sökning: "Unreliable narrator"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 30 uppsatser innehållade orden Unreliable narrator.

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

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Holdens berättelse om Holden : En narratologisk undersökning av berättaren och dialogerna i J. D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Linus van Lint; [2019]
    Nyckelord :narratology; unreliable narrator; dialogues; self-narration; narratologi; opålitlig berättare; dialoger; självnarration;

    Sammanfattning : The study examines narrating techniques and narratological positions in relation to the dialogues in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. First, it is studied how the narrator Holden Caulfield uses the psychological process self-narratology as a means to organize his memories into a coherent narrative. LÄS MER

  5. 14. The Selectiveness of Nick Carraway : The Unreliable Narrator in The Great Gatsby

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Författare :Windy Daniel; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Reliability; narratology; selectiveness; concealment; censorship; memory; drunkenness;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Reoression, Defense Mechanisms and the Unreliability of Stevens' Narration in the Remains of the Day

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humaniora

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER