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Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness : Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives / ed. by Vera Nünning.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory ; 44Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (442 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110408102
  • 9783110408416
  • 9783110408263
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.036
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Conceptualising (Un)reliable Narration and (Un)trustworthiness -- Theoretical Issues And New Directions -- Theorising Narrative (Un)reliability: A Tentative Roadmap -- What about the Default, or Interpretive Diversity? Some Reflections on Narrative (Un)reliability -- Reconceptualising Fictional (Un)reliability and (Un)trustworthiness from a Multidisciplinary Perspective: Categories, Typology and Functions -- Kinds of Unreliability in Fiction: Narratorial, Focal, Expositional and Combined -- 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 -- Unreliability in Non-Fiction: The Case of the Unreliable Addressee -- Transgeneric And Intermedial Approaches -- Unreliability in Lyric Poetry -- The Performative Power of Unreliable Narration and Focalisation in Drama and Theatre: Conceptualising the Specificity of Dramatic Unreliability -- Irony, Retroactivity, and Ambiguity: Three Kinds of “Unreliable Narration” in Literature and Film -- (Un)reliability in Fictional and Factual Audiovisual Narratives on YouTube -- Tracing Televised ‘Truth’: Reality Effect and Unreliable Narration in TV News -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives On (Un)Reliability -- (Un)reliable Narration in Journalism: The Fine Line between Fact and Fiction -- Unreliable Narratives in the US Elections: How Much Reliability Can a Campaign Take? -- Unreliable Narration in Law Courts -- Unreliable Narration in Historical Studies -- Unreliability in Patient Narratives: From Clinical Assessment to Narrative Practice -- Communicating Dreams: On the Struggle for Reliable Dream Reporting and the Unreliability of Dream Reports -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Conceptualising (Un)reliable Narration and (Un)trustworthiness -- Theoretical Issues And New Directions -- Theorising Narrative (Un)reliability: A Tentative Roadmap -- What about the Default, or Interpretive Diversity? Some Reflections on Narrative (Un)reliability -- Reconceptualising Fictional (Un)reliability and (Un)trustworthiness from a Multidisciplinary Perspective: Categories, Typology and Functions -- Kinds of Unreliability in Fiction: Narratorial, Focal, Expositional and Combined -- 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 -- Unreliability in Non-Fiction: The Case of the Unreliable Addressee -- Transgeneric And Intermedial Approaches -- Unreliability in Lyric Poetry -- The Performative Power of Unreliable Narration and Focalisation in Drama and Theatre: Conceptualising the Specificity of Dramatic Unreliability -- Irony, Retroactivity, and Ambiguity: Three Kinds of “Unreliable Narration” in Literature and Film -- (Un)reliability in Fictional and Factual Audiovisual Narratives on YouTube -- Tracing Televised ‘Truth’: Reality Effect and Unreliable Narration in TV News -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives On (Un)Reliability -- (Un)reliable Narration in Journalism: The Fine Line between Fact and Fiction -- Unreliable Narratives in the US Elections: How Much Reliability Can a Campaign Take? -- Unreliable Narration in Law Courts -- Unreliable Narration in Historical Studies -- Unreliability in Patient Narratives: From Clinical Assessment to Narrative Practice -- Communicating Dreams: On the Struggle for Reliable Dream Reporting and the Unreliability of Dream Reports -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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