Unreliable Narration

Unreliable Narration is a mode of narrative discourse in which the narrator’s account of events, characters, or values is not to be taken as authoritative because it systematically diverges from the implied author’s norms or from the actual state of the represented world, thereby obliging readers to infer a more reliable version of the story beyond the narrator’s perspective.

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2017–2026

Parents

Comparative Narrative StudiesNarrative StudiesNarrative TheoryNarratology

Children

Characterization Through Unreliable NarrationDeliberate Deception In NarrationDiegetic ReliabilityEpistolary UnreliabilityFactual UnreliabilityFirst-person UnreliabilityIdeological UnreliabilityInterpretive InstabilityIrony In Unreliable NarrationMemory Failure In Narration

Publications

Buying a Lie: The Harms and Deceptions of Ghostwriting

T. J. Fosko · University of Arkansas at Little Rock law review · 2012 · 295 citations

Law, Social Psychology, Copyright Infringement +9

Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators

Greta Olson · Narrative · 2003 · 266 citations

Humanities, Literature, Literary Studies +14

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

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

Arts, Educational Psychology, Literature +11

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

Karolle Lynn Wall · 1994 · 163 citations

Humanities, Philosophy, Hermeneutics +13

Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and the Ethics of Lolita

James Phelan · Narrative · 2007 · 162 citations

Humanities, Literature, Literary Criticism +16

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Authors

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James Phelan
The Ohio State University, United States
3 publications · 200 citations
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Daniel Nolan
Australian National University, Australia
2 publications · 78 citations
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Vera Nünning
Heidelberg University, Germany
2 publications · 76 citations
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AC
A. C. Spearing
2 publications · 29 citations
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PB
Patrick Brancaccio
1 publications · 26 citations
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Venues

Journal of Literary Theory
6 publications · 258 citations
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Style
3 publications · 155 citations
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Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics
LL · 2 publications · 76 citations
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Narrative
2 publications · 428 citations
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Semiotica
2 publications · 117 citations
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