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#24: Unreliable Narrator

Posted in Episodes by deareditor on November 16th, 2009

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Dear Editor: From now on all my communication with your office will be written in third person in the hopes that you will take it more seriously.

definition

How it relates to first person

Degrees of unreliableness, from tricking the reader to making a funny

examples:

  • Jane Eyre: manipulation + fate
  • Huck Finn: chilluns
  • Edgar Allen Poe: Cask of Amontidillo + Tell Tale Heart
  • Mystery Stories
  • Frankenstein - monster narrates
  • Oryx & Crake
  • Left Hand of Darkness - insider/outsider
  • As I Lay Dying (My mother is a fish)
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