Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch: Bending Facts in Unreliable and Unnatural Narration
Author:   Monika Fludernik ,  Zuzana Fonioková
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   1
ISBN:  

9783631660508


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   30 July 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch: Bending Facts in Unreliable and Unnatural Narration


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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 œuvre 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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Author:   Monika Fludernik ,  Zuzana Fonioková
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9783631660508


ISBN 10:   3631660502
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   30 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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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) Read the full review here


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


Author Information

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.

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