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Narratorial Reliability

Narratorial Reliability is a narrative theory construct that assesses the degree to which a narrator’s account of story events can be trusted within a given textual world, distinguished by its focus on the alignment between the narrator’s testimony and the assumed truth conditions of the narrative.

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

Karolle Lynn Wall · 1994 · 163 citations

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Fictional Reliability as a Communicative Problem

Tamar Yacobi · Poetics Today · 1981 · 121 citations

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Historicizing Unreliable Narration: Unreliability and Cultural Discourse in Narrative Fiction

Bruno Zerweck · Style · 2001 · 90 citations

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Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film

Gregory Currie · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1995 · 75 citations

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Authors

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  1. TY
    Tamar Yacobi

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    3 publications · 171 citations

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  2. VN
    Vera Nünning

    Heidelberg University, Germany

    2 publications · 76 citations

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  3. KC
    Kent Cartwright

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  4. DP
    Donald P. Spence

    Johnson University, United States

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  5. JT
    John T. Curtis

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    1 publications · 34 citations

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Institutions

21

  1. University of Göttingen

    Göttingen, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    57 citations

  2. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    87 citations

  3. Qatar University

    Doha, Qatar

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  4. Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    Jena, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

  5. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    52 citations

  6. Manouba University

    Manouba, Tunisia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  7. Tunis University

    Tunis, Tunisia

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    26 citations

  8. Trinity University

    San Antonio, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

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  1. Poetics Today

    4 publications · 187 citations

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  2. Journal of Literary Theory

    2 publications · 57 citations

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  3. Semiotica

    2 publications · 117 citations

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  4. Style

    2 publications · 135 citations

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  5. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

    1 publications · 11 citations

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