| Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch: Bending Facts in Unreliable and Unnatural Narration Contributor(s): Fludernik, Monika (Other), Fonioková, Zuzana (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631660502 ISBN-13: 9783631660508 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $88.41 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 401.41 |
| LCCN: 2015014865 |
| Series: Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.11 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 oeuvre 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. |