V. Nünning (éd.), Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness. Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Vera Nünning (éd.), Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness. Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, coll.«Narratologia», 2015.

EAN13: 9783110408263

442 pages

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Though the phenomenon known as “unreliable narration” or “narrative unreliability” has received a lot of attention during the last two decades, narratological research has mainly focused on its manifestations in narrative fiction, particularly in homodiegetic or first-person narration. Except for film, forms and functions of unreliable narration in other genres, media and disciplines have so far been relatively neglected. The present volume redresses the balance by directing scholarly attention to disciplines and domains that narratology has so far largely ignored. It aims at initiating an interdisciplinary approach to, and debate on, narrative unreliability, exploring unreliable narration in a broad range of literary genres, other media and non-fictional text-types, contexts and disciplines beyond literary studies. Crossing the boundaries between genres, media, and disciplines, the volume acknowledges that the question of whether or not to believe or trust a narrator transcends the field of literature: The issues of (un)reliability and (un)trustworthiness play a crucial role in many areas of human life as well as a wide spectrum of academic fields ranging from law to history, and from psychology to the study of culture.

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Preface and Acknowledgements

VERA NÜNNING
Conceptualising (Un)reliable Narration and (Un)trustworthiness

THEORETICAL ISSUES AND NEW DIRECTIONS

URI MARGOLIN
Theorising Narrative (Un)reliability: A Tentative Roadmap

LIESBETH KORTHALS ALTES
What about the Default, or Interpretive Diversity?
Some Reflections on Narrative (Un)reliability

VERA NÜNNING
Reconceptualising Fictional (Un)reliability and (Un)trustworthiness from a Multidisciplinary Perspective: Categories, Typology and Functions

BO PETTERSSON
Kinds of Unreliability in Fiction: Narratorial, Focal, Expositional and Combined

ROBERT VOGT
Combining Possible-Worlds Theory and Cognitive Theory: Towards an Explanatory Model for Ironic-Unreliable Narration, Ironic-Unreliable Focalization, Ambiguous-Unreliable and Alterated-Unreliable Narration in Literary Fiction

GUNTHER MARTENS Unreliability in Non-Fiction: The Case of the Unreliable Addressee

TRANSGENERIC AND INTERMEDIAL APPROACHES

PETER HÜHN
Unreliability in Lyric Poetry

ANSGAR NÜNNING & CHRISTINE SCHWANECKE
The Performative Power of Unreliable Narration and Focalisation in Drama and Theatre: Conceptualising the
Specificity of Dramatic Unreliability

MATTHIAS BRÜTSCH
Irony, Retroactivity, and Ambiguity: Three Kinds of “Unreliable Narration” in Literature and Film

MARKUS KUHN
(Un)reliability in Fictional and Factual Audiovisual Narratives on YouTube

CHRISTOPH BIETZ
Tracing Televised ‘Truth’: Reality Effect and Unreliable Narration in TV News

INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON (UN)RELIABILITY

BEATRICE DERNBACH
(Un)reliable Narration in Journalism: The Fine Line between Fact and Fiction

ANDREAS ELTER
Unreliable Narratives in the US Elections: How Much Reliability Can a Campaign Take?

ANDREAS VON ARNAULD & STEFAN MARTINI
Unreliable Narration in Law Courts

STEPHAN JAEGER
Unreliable Narration in Historical Studies

JARMILA MILDORF
Unreliability in Patient Narratives: From Clinical Assessment to Narrative Practice

BRIGITTE BOOTHE & DRAGICA STOJKOVIĆ
Communicating Dreams: On the Struggle for Reliable Dream Reporting and the Unreliability of Dream Reports

Notes on Contributors

Index