Research has shown that the present-tense novel poses significant logical
problems of narrative mediation. For this reason, the current essay addresses the
question of whether, due to these problems, the heterodiegetic present-tense novel
is a case of unreliable narration. To this end, the essay first discusses the sustainability of the concept of unreliability. Its point of departure is the observation that
researchers have created significant confusion by applying a characterological
concept to literary phenomena. Despite an overwhelming amount of pertinent
essays and monographs on the topic, the central questions raised by this concept
are still highly contested: To which narrative instances can we plausibly apply the
category of unreliability? Precisely which narratological aspects of the mediating
instance can we account for using the category of unreliability ?
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:91681 |
| Date | 28 May 2024 |
| Creators | Ohme, Andreas |
| Publisher | de Gruyter |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 1862-5290, 1862-8990, 10.1515/jlt-2018-0006 |
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