R: A good insight.
Annalisa Baicchi (baicchi@ats.it)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:06:55 +0200
hi Lesley, I'll try to give some examples even though i don't know if you
were looking for them.
Your opinion about JDS being a foreshadower of news reporting is great !
I think that, strictly speaking, we can say that unrealiable narrator is
the one who guides the reader to make wrong assumption only to deny them at
the end of the story: a good example is THE SENTRY by Fredric Brown (as
well as of news reporting !!)
Reliable narrator is the one who is omniscent and therefore it is typical
of first person narration: consequently the position of the narrator is
inside the story; the narrator can be defined an eye-witness but he can be
the protagonist of the story (E.A.Poe, for example) or he can be one of
the chatacters of the story but not the protagonist (e.g. Nick Carraway in
The Great Gatsby, who has a privileged point of observation, his being
inside the story).
Annalisa
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> Da: PODESTA,Lesley <Lesley.PODESTA@deetya.gov.au>
> A: 'bananafish@lists.nyu.edu'
> Oggetto: A good insight.
> Data: mercoledì 15 aprile 1998 1.05
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> Will Hochman made reference to :
> > Wayne C. Booth in his book, The Rehtoric of Fiction, uses holden to
> > illustrate his concept of unreliable narration.
> >
> Well, thank you Will. I love this concept of "unreliable narration."
> Perhaps JDS was foreshadowing the nineties concept of "news reporting"
> when he wrote CITR. Where oh where is there such a thing as "reliable
> narration"?
>
> "Unreliable narration". I love it. Gave me a real lift to the day.
>
> Lesley
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