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"Unreliable narrators do not only appear in novels, but also in films": a topic of its own. | "Unreliable narrators do not only appear in novels, but also in films": a topic of its own. | ||
Examples: 1. are not really useful if one does not know the texts; 2. do not conform to the stylesheet of the Englisches Seminar. | |||
== Examples of unreliable narration == | |||
'''Novels''' | |||
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) | |||
The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James (1898) | |||
The Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1902) | |||
Money by Martin Amis (1984) | |||
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991) | |||
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (1952) | |||
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951) | |||
The End Of Alice by AM Homes (1996) | |||
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2003) | |||
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884) | |||
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1924) | |||
The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1925) | |||
'''Films''' | |||
Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa (1950) | |||
The Shining by Stanley Kubricks (1980) | |||
The Sixth Sense by M.Night Shyamalan (1999) | |||
Lady in the Lake by Robert Montgomery (1947) | |||
Stage Fright by Alfred Hitchcock (1950) | |||
Memento by Christopher Nolan (2000) | |||
Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard (2001) | |||
Latest revision as of 16:31, 12 January 2012
Justification of cuts:
"It is a term that has not yet tied up loose ends and that still lacks terminological precision": well, why make a Wiki-entry then?
"Unreliable narrators do not only appear in novels, but also in films": a topic of its own.
Examples: 1. are not really useful if one does not know the texts; 2. do not conform to the stylesheet of the Englisches Seminar.
Examples of unreliable narration
Novels
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James (1898)
The Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1902)
Money by Martin Amis (1984)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (1952)
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)
The End Of Alice by AM Homes (1996)
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2003)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1924)
The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Films
Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa (1950)
The Shining by Stanley Kubricks (1980)
The Sixth Sense by M.Night Shyamalan (1999)
Lady in the Lake by Robert Montgomery (1947)
Stage Fright by Alfred Hitchcock (1950)
Memento by Christopher Nolan (2000)
Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard (2001)