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Manikowski, Rebekah. "Unreliable Narrators." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/747.

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Unreliable Narrators is a record of the process to create a mixed media installation about how and why we tell stories, and how we as an audience discern the truth of those stories. The installation tells three different perspectives of the same story. Part documentary and part detective search, this project has viewers following the subject as she pieces together her story and ultimately has them deciding for themselves what to believe.

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White, Libbey Katherine. "The Evolution Debate Onscreen: Unreliable Narrators Find A Home." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/white/WhiteL0807.pdf.

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Faced with increasingly influential opposition from fundamentalist religious groups, evolutionists could benefit from reexamining their strategies in the evolution vs. creation debate. This thesis is based on the understanding that the debate is not about scientific evidence, but rather warring ideologies. The religious fundamentalist ideology perceives materialism and moral relativism as threats that follow from the theory of evolution, and in this thesis both threats are debunked. Understood as warring ideologies, the debate broadens, and calls for a wider range of approaches. Art could be a

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Häljestam, Göran. "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." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-30097.

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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. This essay compares the unreliability in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, using theories formulated by Tamar Yacobi, Bruno Zerweck, Therese Heyd, James Phelan and Amit Marcus. In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd the technique of other-deceptive narration is used by Christie. In Lolita the unreliability is complex. Using both other-deception and self-deception to create discre

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Ferenz, Volker. "Don't believe his lies : the unreliable narrator in contemporary American cinema /." Trier : Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990884805/04.

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Sjöberg, Rebecka. "Deprivation of Closure in McEwan's Atonement : Unreliability and Metafiction as Underlying Causes." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-16866.

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The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to discuss, and attempt to confirm, that Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) lacks closure. Since the novel has an unreliable narrator who offers her readers several credible endings to her narrative, and who also acts as the fictitious author of the story, unreliability and metafiction are claimed to be the main underlying causes of this deprivation of closure. The discussion in the first section of the analysis is based on the plot development depicted in Gustav Freytag’s Pyramid, and the second part is focused on Victoria Orlowski’s four metafictional characte

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Narinsky, Anna. "The unreliable narrator in The General Prologue : a narratological approach to Chaucer." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495802.

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Daniel, Windy. "The Selectiveness of Nick Carraway : The Unreliable Narrator in The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43812.

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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. Booth, who was the first that introduced reliability and unreliability, and marked Nick as a reliable narrator. Nick’s account is a retrospective telling of events which happened two years earlier and Booth argues for Nick’s reliability because he provides the benefit of hindsight.

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Campbell, Samantha Nicole. ""Beyond the Pavement" and "Setting Fire to the Sky" With Critical Introduction: "Exploring the Dark: Gothic Short Stories"." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/250.

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This thesis explores the genre of gothic literature by outlining the themes and common techniques that writers use. It discusses prominent writers in the genre, as well as critiques their techniques and compares them to my own. Two fiction pieces are accompanied with the critical introduction that fit the gothic literature genre.

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Lee, Jung-Ah J. "Short Stories about Home." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/534.

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Collection of short stories about unreliable characters. Iris, Happy New Year, Promise, and Siblings are stories about home - whether it is about a broken home or just a character missing home. These short stories are all fictional.

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Melkner, Moser Linda. "Unreliable Narration and the Portrayal of Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-16921.

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This essay investigates the narration in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre by applying narratologist Great Olson’s model of unreliable narration to Jane, the novel’s narrator. Further, the novel discusses how Jane’s reliability affects the portrayal of the character Bertha Mason. The essay argues that the narrator’s characterization of Bertha Mason is deliberately misleading.

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Federer, Lisa M. "Ghosts and Lovers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4521/.

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Ghosts and Lovers is a collection of short stories told from the points-of-view of four related characters. Travis is a bisexual restaurant owner who fears commitment and longs for the idealistic version of love that he remembers from his past. Ezra, his boyfriend, is an artist struggling to accept the inherent imperfections of life. Travis's ex-girlfriend, Beth, attempts to come to terms with the life that she has chosen for herself. Her husband, Richard, deals with feelings of helplessness as he watches the events of his life unfold before him. By depicting the events of the story from multi

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Mattsson, Filip. "“We Did Not Trust Ourselves” : A study of the unreliable narration in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-82905.

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Annihilation is the first novel in the trilogy named “The Southern Reach,” a ScienceFiction/Horror series of books written by Jeff VanderMeer. Annihilation focuses on a team of scientists on an expedition into an area where the very nature has been altered in mysterious ways. The scientists’ goal is to study this area to come to an understanding of what is happening, but like the eleven previous expeditions, they fail. With the aid of narratology, I will argue that Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation is an unreliable narrative. To prove that, I will analyse and discuss specific passage’s unreliab

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Persson, David. "The Reader as Co-Author : Uses of Indeterminacy in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-5211.

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The purpose of this essay is to explore how different means are used to create indeterminate meaning in Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw. It suggests that the indeterminacy creates gaps in the text which the reader is required to fill in during the reading process, and that this indeterminacy is achieved chiefly through the use of an unreliable narrator and of ambiguity in the way the narrator relates the events that take place. The reliability of the narrator is called into question by her personal qualities as well as by narrative factors. Personal qualities that undermine the nar

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Almroth, Klas. "Postmoderniara : En revy över en postmodern idévärld i Harry Martinsons Aniara." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Ämnesforskning, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-24001.

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Uppsatsen ämnar belysa hur Harry Martinsons Aniara (1956) förebådar postmodernismen trots att verket är rotat i den modernistiska traditionen. Analysen tar upp två aspekter med fokus på innehåll och berättarteknik där verket visar prov på en postmodern idévärld. Först behandlas miman, och resonemang förs kring att hon och hennes produktion bör ses som en masskulturell företeelse snarare än som elitistisk diktkonst. Analysen anknyter till Baudrillards teori om hyperverklighet och simulacrum och visar på hur miman skapar detta med sin kulturproduktion. Här framstår två tolkningsalternativ: ett

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Milfull, Mostyn Timothy. "Writing about risky relatives and what might have been : the craft of historiographic metafiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/51203/1/Tim_Milfull_Vol.1_Exegesis.pdf.

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This practice-based research project consists of a 33,000-word novella, "Folly", and a 50,000-word exegesis that examines the principles of historiographic metafiction (HMF), the recontextualisation of historical figures and scenarios, and other narratological concepts that inform my creative practice. As an emerging sub-genre of historical fiction, HMF is one aspect of a national and international discourse about historical fiction in the fields of literature, history, and politics. Leading theorists discussed below include Linda Hutcheon and Ansgar Nünning, along with the recent critically-a

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Salas, Leslie. "Mirrors and Vanities." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5697.

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Mirrors and Vanities is a multi-modal collection which showcases the diversity of working in long and short storytelling forms. Featured in this thesis are fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, and screenplay. Using unconventional approaches to storytelling in order to achieve emotional resonance with the audience while maintaining high standards for craft, these stories and essays explore the costs inherent to the subtle nuances of interpersonal relationships. The fiction focuses on the complications of characters keeping secrets. A husband discovers the truth behind his wife's misca

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Damman, Catherine J. "Unreliable Narrators: Staging Performance in the 1970s." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8J40920.

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The 1970s are widely considered the decade of performance, with both the formulation of the term “performance” and fierce debates about its precise definition. Championing this novel genre, critics and artists sought to distinguish performance from the conventions of theater and the prescriptions of commercial entertainment. In the definition that has since dominated art history, performance implied the exclusion of narrative, script, artifice, and theatricality. However, this understanding of performance relies on a caricature of the genre that excludes much of the work made in downtown New Y

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Forshaw, Judy. "First-person narration: the unreliable narrator in contemporary fiction." Thesis, 2017. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/706823/1/Forshaw_2018.pdf.

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This thesis comprises a novel and a critical commentary. The novel Cure for the Damned is in the Gothic tradition but has a contemporary setting. The story is told by two first-person narrators. Magnus, a forensic psychiatrist, and his partner Tom, a meteorologist, leave their life in central London to set up a therapeutic community in the Sussex countryside. Isolated in a damp cottage on the edge of woodland and cut off from their support network, old hurts and fears surface. Mistrust lies at the heart of their story. Tom and Magnus provide subtly and, at other times, starkly differing accoun

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Huang, Tzu-chieh, and 黃資絜. "Crossing the Barriers of Realism: The Unreliable Narrator in Memory Plays." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09796762642717987731.

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Ferry, James. "The Unreliable Narrator: Simplifying the Device and Exploring its Role in Autobiography." 2017. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/463.

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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. While previous studies have focused mainly on extra- and intertextual incongruities (factual inaccuracies; disparities between two nonfiction texts), the present study attempts to demonstrate that the memoirist can employ unreliable narration intratexually as a rhetorical tool. The paper begins with some examples of how the unreliable narrator is used

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Zemanová, Tereza. "Deziluze v románech Iana McEwana po roce 2000." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-364275.

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(in English): The focus of this diploma thesis is disillusion in the works of the contemporary novelist Ian McEwan, particularly in his twenty-first century novels. The thesis analyses the disillusionment of the reader based on McEwan's work with traditional narratives and the reader's expectations, which is achieved through the employment of the unreliable narrator in Atonement (2001) and Sweet Tooth (2012), depiction of self-deception in Saturday (2005) and Solar (2010), and the misunderstanding on the interpersonal and intrapersonal level in On Chesil Beach (2007) and The Children Act (2014

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Dionne-Michaud, Mélisa. "Zwischen Inszenierter Wirklichkeit und realem Traum : Rolle und Problematik des Erzählers in den phantastischen Prosawerken von Leo Perutz und Alexander Lernet-Holenia." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4500.

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Souvent laissée pour contre par les théoriciens, longtemps associée à la littérature populaire, la littérature fantastique a su depuis se tailler une place parmi les grands genres de la littérature. Depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, les chercheurs et le public découvrent ou redécouvrent un genre qui a toujours fait parti du paysage littéraire. Une œuvre majeure contribuera à la redécouverte scientifique du genre : Écrite en 1970 l’œuvre de Tzvetan Todorov Introduction à la littérature fantastique donne tant au néophyte qu’au chercheur un ouvrage qui trouve encore des échos aujourd’hui. Sa défin

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Adamová, Kateřina. "Postmoderní pojetí děl KURTA VONNEGUTA." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-312560.

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This thesis analyzes narrative strategies of Kurt Vonnegut as a postmodern author with a specific style. The first part defines postmodernism as opposed to modernism and explains all essential notions to provide the theoretical background. This part also includes a biographical element, describing the important events of the author's life, as these had a major influence on his work. Second part of the thesis analyzes the narrative style of the two selected books, Breakfast of Champions and Mother Night. The conclusion summarizes the most important specifics of the author's narrative strategies

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Pčola, Marián. "Za hranicami fikčného rozprávania." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-329158.

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My thesis examines the nature of contemporary fictional narration and explores its relations to other types of narration - mainly texts where educational or informative function prevails over the aesthetic one. The whole work is divided into four parts. The first part is theoretical; it sets up basic areas of interest and names methods, tools and models that will be tested on selected examples from Slavonic literatures. The second part analyses spatial and temporal relations of fictional narrative. Chapter 2.1 treats time and space in a novel mostly from the compositional point of view (based

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