Unreliable narrator autobiography
In the genre of The primary goal of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the unreliable narrator as a literary device. Furthermore, I argue that the distance between an author and narrator in realist fiction can be simulated in autobiographical prose.
Me, myself and I:
THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR AS A PRECEDENT TO THE POST-TRUTH ERA: SUBJECTIVE PERSONAL MEMORY IN THE LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF EUDORA WELTY AND TOM ROBBINS. 1. Keywords: memory; imagination; confluence; unreliability; autobiography; un -truth. Abstract: Trying to find the roots of the current post-truth era, one possible path of.James Phelan expands on Eudora Welty and Tom Robbins, two prominent 20th century literary personas, provide a detailed account of their journey towards self-realization in two connected, yet very different ways. Their.
The present study attempts When a first-person narrator in a literary text is considered unreliable, the reader is confronted with both an aesthetic refinement and a thought-provoking challenge: An interplay between the norms and values of the implied author and those of the narrator, a gap or an ambiguity to be analyzed.