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Term coined by Wayne Booth in ''The Rhetoric of Fiction'' (1961). | Term coined by Wayne Booth in ''The Rhetoric of Fiction'' (1961). | ||
==List of works | ==List of works== | ||
These works employ unreliable narrators or narration: | |||
* [[Emily Brontë]]'s ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' | * [[Emily Brontë]]'s ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' | ||
* [[Deborah Christian]]'s ''[[Kar Kalim]]'' | * [[Deborah Christian]]'s ''[[Kar Kalim]]'' | ||
* [[Alice Nunn]]'s ''[[Illicit Passage]]'' | * [[Alice Nunn]]'s ''[[Illicit Passage]]'' | ||
* Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | * Lemony Snicket's ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' | ||
* [[Raccoona Sheldon]]'s "[[Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!|Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!]]" | |||
* Gendibal in ''[[Foundation's Edge]]'' by [[Isaac Asimov]]; see [[Sura Novi]] | |||
* ''[[The Wasp Factory]]'' by [[Iain M. Banks]] | |||
* ''[[Fingersmith]]'' by [[Sarah Waters]] | |||
[[Category:Characterization]] | [[Category:Characterization]] | ||
[[Category:Literary devices]] | [[Category:Literary devices]] | ||
[[Category:Narrative devices]] | [[Category:Narrative devices]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:11, 9 February 2011
Term coined by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961).
List of works
These works employ unreliable narrators or narration:
- Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
- Deborah Christian's Kar Kalim
- Alice Nunn's Illicit Passage
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Raccoona Sheldon's "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!"
- Gendibal in Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov; see Sura Novi
- The Wasp Factory by Iain M. Banks
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters