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Narrative Unreliability

Narrative Unreliability is a literary phenomenon in which a narrator's credibility is compromised due to defective epistemic, psychological, or moral limitations that systematically distort the representation of events, thereby distinguishing it from straightforward or trustworthy narration within narrative theory.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators

Greta Olson · Narrative · 2003 · 266 citations

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Learning errors from fiction: Difficulties in reducing reliance on fictional stories

Elizabeth J. Marsh, Lisa K. Fazio · Memory & Cognition · 2006 · 197 citations · Full text

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The Remains of the Day and its challenges to theories of unreliable narration

Karolle Lynn Wall · 1994 · 163 citations

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Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and the Ethics of Lolita

James Phelan · Narrative · 2007 · 162 citations

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Fictional Reliability as a Communicative Problem

Tamar Yacobi · Poetics Today · 1981 · 121 citations

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Authors

35

  1. TY
    Tamar Yacobi

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    4 publications · 225 citations

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  2. VN
    Vera Nünning

    Heidelberg University, Germany

    2 publications · 76 citations

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  3. TH
    Theresa Heyd

    University of Freiburg, Germany

    2 publications · 85 citations

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  4. JP
    James Phelan

    The Ohio State University, United States

    2 publications · 182 citations

    2

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  5. DN
    Daniel Nolan

    Australian National University, Australia

    2 publications · 78 citations

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Institutions

18

  1. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    87 citations

  2. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

    Mainz, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    151 citations

  3. University of Göttingen

    Göttingen, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    67 citations

  4. Lebanese American University

    Beirut, Lebanon

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    62 citations

  5. University of Bremen

    Bremen, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  6. University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Greensboro, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    62 citations

  7. Yonsei University

    Seoul, South Korea

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  8. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    51 citations

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Venues

  1. Poetics Today

    6 publications · 289 citations

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  2. Journal of Literary Theory

    6 publications · 264 citations

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  3. Style

    3 publications · 155 citations

    3

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  4. Semiotica

    2 publications · 117 citations

    2

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  5. Narrative

    2 publications · 428 citations

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