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The Insane Narrator in Contemporary American Fiction

This study is an inquiry into the relationship between the contemporary American writer's understanding of American reality and his attempt to convey this reality by the use of an insane first-person point of view character. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the insane narrator's point of view not only recreates the feeling of absurdity through the disjointed point of view of the madman, but also points to the absurdity in contemporary American life. The first part of this study analyzes the narrators in Henderson the Rain King, The Bell Jar, and Lancelot. The second part uses A Fan's Notes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Breakfast of Champions to discuss the problems that arise from the use of an insane narrator.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504194
Date08 1900
CreatorsCoelen, George Ronald
ContributorsHughes, Robert L., Smith, John T., Miller, Lee W.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 151 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Coelen, George Ronald, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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