"Where the Nightmares End and Real-Life Begins": Radical Unreliability in Sydney Bridge Upside Down

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"Where the Nightmares End and Real-Life Begins": Radical Unreliability in Sydney Bridge Upside Down

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Victoria University of Wellington

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The unreliable narrator is one of the most contested concepts in narrative theory. While critical debates have been heated, they have tended to foreground that the problem of the unreliable narrator is epistemological rather than ontological: it is agreed that narrators can be unreliable in their accounts, but not how the unreliable narrator ought to be defined, nor even how readers can be expected in all certainty to find a narration unreliable. As the wider critical discourse has looked to ...

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Doctoral

Date created

2017

Creator

Hamish Clayton

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/_Where_the_Nightmares_End_and_Real-Life_Begins_Radical_Unrel...

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Literary theory / New Zealand literature (excl. Māori literature) / New Zealand literature / David Ballantyne / Narrative theory / School: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies / New Zealand Literature (excl. Māori Literature) / Literary Theory / Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture / Degree Discipline: English / Degree Level: Doctoral / Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy / New Zealand Literature (excl. Maori Literature)

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