Unreliable Narrators in Post-War Prose (VIII, X)

Unreliable Narrators in Post-War Prose (VIII, X)

Dr Alex Lloyd, St Edmund Hall | Magdalen College

| http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/lloyda

General Reading

Primary Texts

Pierre Bayard, Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? The Murderer who Eluded Hercule Poirot and

Deceived Agatha Christie (1998)

Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Günter Grass, Die Blechtrommel (1959) (Steidl, 2003)

Thomas Mann, Mario und der Zauberer (1930)

Vladimir Nobokov, Lolita (1955)

Arthur Schnitzler, Leutnant Gustl (1900-01) (Fischer, 1981)

Christa Wolf, Kindheitsmuster (1976) (Luchterhand, 2000)

Secondary Literature

H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2008)

Mieke Bal, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, 3rd edn (Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 2009)

Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1961)

Mary Cosgrove, Born Under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German

Literature (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013)

Gregory Currie, ‘Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film’, The

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 53.1 (1995), 19-29

Elke D'hoker, Gunther Martens (eds.), Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-

Century First-Person Novel (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008)

Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature (Yale: Yale University Press, 2013)

David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan (eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia

of Narrative Theory (London; New York: Routledge, 2005)

Monika Fludernik, ‘Defining (In)sanity: The Narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper’, in

Grenzüberschreitungen: Narratologie im Kontext / Transcending Boundaries: Narratology in Context, ed. by Walter Grünzweig and Andreas Solbach (Tübingen: Narr, 1999), pp. 75-95

Monika Fludernik, An Introduction to Narratology (New York, NY/Abingdon:

Routledge, 2009)

Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse Revisited, trans. by Jane E. Lewin

(Cornell: Cornell University Press, 1990)

Ansgar Nünning, ‘Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing Cognitive

and Rhetorical Approaches’, in A Companion to Narrative Theory, ed. by James Phelan and Peter J.Rabinowitz (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 89–107

---., ‘Unreliable, Compared to What? Towards a Cognitive Theory of Unreliable

Narration: Prolegomena and Hypotheses’, in Grenzüberschreitungen: Narratologie im Kontext / Transcending Boundaries: Narratology in Context, ed. by Walter Grünzweig and Andreas Solbach (Tübingen: Narr, 1999), 53–73

John S. O’Connor, ‘Seeking Truth in Fiction: Teaching Unreliable Narrators’, The

English Journal, 83.2 (1994), 48-50

Greta Olson, ‘Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators’,

Narrative, 11.1 (2003), 93-109

James Phelan, Living to Tell about It (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005)

William Riggan, Picaros, Madmen, Naifs, and Clowns: The Unreliable First-Person

Narrator (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981)

Michael Smith, Understanding Unreliable Narrators (Urbana: NCTE, 1991)

Kathleen Wall, ‘"The Remains of the Day" and Its Challenges to Theories of

Unreliable Narration’, The Journal of Narrative Technique, 24.1 (1994), 18-42

Tamar Yacobi, ‘Fictional Reliability as a Communicative Problem’, Poetics Today,

2.2 (1981), special issue: Narratology III: Narration and Perspective in Fiction, 113-26