Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch: Bending Facts in Unreliable and Unnatural Narration

ISBN-13: 9783631660508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 268 str.

Zuzana Foniokova

Opis

Since the late 1990s unreliable narration has garnered popularity in narrative theory and has sparked a lively debate among scholars. This book traces the theoretical discussions surrounding narrative unreliability and examines the relationship of unreliable narration to antimimetic techniques of portraying self-deception. Standing on the border between classical and postclassical narratology, the study analyses Kazuo Ishiguro s and Max Frisch s innovative narrative strategies, offering new perspectives on their uvre and on unreliable narration as a narratological concept. A comparison of the methods Ishiguro and Frisch employ to explore the psychology of their narrators reveals a fascinating parallel in their development as novelists."

Recenzje

«The project carried out through the book deserves credit on several accounts.»
(Stefan Iversen, Journal of Literary Theory JLT - online 2017)

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Spis treści

Contents: Unreliable narration - Unreliability - Narratology - Unnatural narration - Kazuo Ishiguro - Max Frisch - Narrative strategies - Narrator - Literary theory - 20th-century English literature - 20th-century German literature - Identity - Memory - Self-deception - Fictional world - Possible-world theory - Postmodernism.

O autorze

Zuzana Fonioková is Assistant Professor of Literature and Intercultural Communication at the Department of Czech Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Her research interests include narratology and contemporary fiction.