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

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

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

3. 17. The unreliability of Dr. Sheppard and Humbert Humbert : A study of the unreliable narrators in Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Nabokov’s Lolita

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Författare :Göran Häljestam; [2016]
   Nyckelord :English Literature; Unreliable narrator; Lolita; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; Nabokov; Christie;

   Sammanfattning : The concept of the unreliable narrator has been studied in academic circles for the last fifty years. When an author decides to create unreliable narration, there is a reason for it. LÄS MER

4. 18. Ungdomslitteraturens räddare i nöden : En analys av The Catcher in the Rye av J.D. Salinger och ungdomslitteratur som dess potentiella genre

   Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Författare :Natassa Karamouzis; [2016]
   Nyckelord :Young Adult literature; The Catcher in the Rye; J.D. Salinger; genre; criteria; ungdomslitteratur; The Catcher in the Rye; J.D. Salinger; genre; kriterier;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis I aim to analyze the modern classic book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951) in an attempt to determine whether one can categorize it as a Young Adult book or not. LÄS MER

5. 19. "Let me Deal so Candidly with the Reader": A Study of the Unnatural Spaces and Narrators of Gulliver’s Travels and the Discworld

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Författare :Atli Sigurdsson; [2016]
   Nyckelord :Discworld; Gulliver s Travels; Terry Pratchett; Jonathan Swift; Fantasy; Narratology; Unnatural Narrative Theory; City Watch; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels set in Ankh-Morpork are similar enough that both can be treated as belonging to the subgenre of comic fantasy. The narratives foreground the fantastic, written to entertain and amuse its readers but also contain societal criticism in the form of satire or parody. LÄS MER

7. 20. Unreliable narration in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Jeff Lindsay's Darkly Dreaming Dexter

   Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Författare :Robin Lundberg; [2015]
   Nyckelord :unreliable narration; Patrick Bateman; Dexter Morgan;

   Sammanfattning : This essay focuses on the character Patrick Bateman in American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and his unreliability as a narrator and compares it to the unreliable narration of the character Dexter Morgan in Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. These characters' respective unreliability is analyzed from the perspective of six types of unreliability suggested by James Phelan and Mary Patricia Martin: misreporting, misreading, misregarding, underreporting, underreading and underregarding. LÄS MER