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 Ishiguros and Max Frischs 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.
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«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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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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9 | (18) |
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Part One Establishing Fictional Facts |
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27 | (62) |
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1.1 Bending Facts in Unreliable Narration |
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27 | (38) |
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1.1.1 Potential Textual Signals of Unreliable Narration |
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49 | (10) |
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1.1.2 Types of Unreliable Narration |
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59 | (6) |
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1.2 Delineating the Borders of Unreliable Narration: Possible-World Theory and World-Constructing Homodiegetic Narrators |
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65 | (13) |
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1.3 Relevant Philosophical, Psychoanalytical, and Psychological Theories and Concepts |
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78 | (11) |
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Part Two The Retold and Relived Identities of Kazuo Ishiguro's Narrators |
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89 | (64) |
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2.1 The Distorted Self-Portrait: Unreliable Narration in An Artist of the Floating World |
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89 | (23) |
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2.2 The Contagious Wound: Unnatural Narration in The Unconsoled |
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112 | (15) |
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2.3 The Dream Come (Almost) True: Unreliable and Unnatural Narration in When We Were Orphans |
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127 | (26) |
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Part Three The Invented Identities of Max Frisch's Narrators in Comparative Perspective |
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153 | (92) |
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3.1 The Guided Coincidence: Unreliable Narration in Homo faber |
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153 | (29) |
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3.1.1 Homo faber and Ishiguro's novels |
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178 | (4) |
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3.2 The Man without a Past: Two Levels of Potential Narrative Unreliability in Stiller |
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182 | (32) |
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3.2.1 Stiller and Ishiguro's novels |
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212 | (2) |
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3.3 The Search for a Story: The Narration of Possibilities in Mein Name sei Gantenbein |
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214 | (31) |
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3.3.1 Gantenbein and Ishiguro's Novels |
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241 | (4) |
| Conclusion |
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| Works Cited |
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Zuzana Foniokovį 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.
