Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film

Abstract

(1) That narrative unreliability is a concept separable from the concept of an unreliable narrator; (2) That narrative unreliability requires for its explanation the concept of an implied author; (3) That narrative unreliability bears close and interesting connections to the importantly distinct concept of an ambiguous narrative;1 (4) That we can explain the prevalence of certain devices in narrative in terms of the ease or difficulty of the reader's task in figuring out whether and how those devices are being used.