Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness

Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by: Vera Nünning

Volume 44 in the series Narratologia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110408263

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Though the phenomenon known as “unreliable narration” or “narrative unreliability” has received a lot of attention during the last two decades, narratological research has mainly focused on its manifestations in narrative fiction, particularly in homodiegetic or first-person narration. Except for film, forms and functions of unreliable narration in other genres, media and disciplines have so far been relatively neglected. The present volume redresses the balance by directing scholarly attention to disciplines and domains that narratology has so far largely ignored. It aims at initiating an interdisciplinary approach to, and debate on, narrative unreliability, exploring unreliable narration in a broad range of literary genres, other media and non-fictional text-types, contexts and disciplines beyond literary studies. Crossing the boundaries between genres, media, and disciplines, the volume acknowledges that the question of whether or not to believe or trust a narrator transcends the field of literature: The issues of (un)reliability and (un)trustworthiness play a crucial role in many areas of human life as well as a wide spectrum of academic fields ranging from law to history, and from psychology to the study of culture.

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Vera Nünning, Universität Heidelberg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface and Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Conceptualising (Un)reliable Narration and (Un)trustworthiness Vera Nünning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Theoretical Issues And New Directions
Theorising Narrative (Un)reliability: A Tentative Roadmap Uri Margolin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
What about the Default, or Interpretive Diversity? Some Reflections on Narrative (Un)reliability Liesbeth Korthals Altes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Reconceptualising Fictional (Un)reliability and (Un)trustworthiness from a Multidisciplinary Perspective: Categories, Typology and Functions Vera Nünning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Kinds of Unreliability in Fiction: Narratorial, Focal, Expositional and Combined Bo Pettersson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Combining Possible-Worlds Theory and Cognitive Theory: Towards an Explanatory Model for Ironic-Unreliable Narration, Ironic-Unreliable Focalization, Ambiguous- Unreliable and Alterated-Unreliable Narration in Literary Fiction Robert Vogt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Unreliability in Non-Fiction: The Case of the Unreliable Addressee Gunther Martens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Transgeneric And Intermedial Approaches
Unreliability in Lyric Poetry Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
The Performative Power of Unreliable Narration and Focalisation in Drama and Theatre: Conceptualising the Specificity of Dramatic Unreliability Ansgar Nünning and Christine Schwanecke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Irony, Retroactivity, and Ambiguity: Three Kinds of “Unreliable Narration” in Literature and Film Matthias Brütsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
(Un)reliability in Fictional and Factual Audiovisual Narratives on YouTube Markus Kuhn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Tracing Televised ‘Truth’: Reality Effect and Unreliable Narration in TV News Christoph Bietz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Interdisciplinary Perspectives On (Un)Reliability
(Un)reliable Narration in Journalism: The Fine Line between Fact and Fiction Beatrice Dernbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Unreliable Narratives in the US Elections: How Much Reliability Can a Campaign Take? Andreas Elter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Unreliable Narration in Law Courts Andreas Von Arnauld and Stefan Martini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Unreliable Narration in Historical Studies Stephan Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Unreliability in Patient Narratives: From Clinical Assessment to Narrative Practice Jarmila Mildorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Communicating Dreams: On the Struggle for Reliable Dream Reporting and the Unreliability of Dream Reports Brigitte Boothe and Dragica Stojković Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics interested in narratology, literary studies and interdisciplinary study of narrative
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 442
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Coloured Illustrations: 15
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Unreliable narration; intermedial/transgeneric narratology

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Published: February 24, 2015
ISBN: 9783110408263

Hardcover

Published: January 29, 2015
ISBN: 9783110408102

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Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110553093