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The Unreliable Narrator: Simplifying The Device And Exploring Its Role In Autobiography, James Ferry
The Unreliable Narrator: Simplifying The Device And Exploring Its Role In Autobiography, James Ferry
Masters Theses
The primary goal of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the unreliable narrator as a literary device. Furthermore, I argue that the distance between an author and narrator in realist fiction can be simulated in autobiographical prose. While previous studies have focused mainly on extra- and intertextual incongruities (factual inaccuracies; disparities between two nonfiction texts), the present study attempts to demonstrate that the memoirist can employ unreliable narration intratexually as a rhetorical tool. The paper begins with some examples of how the unreliable narrator is used, interpreted, misused and misinterpreted. The device’s troubled history is examined—Wayne Booth …
A Poetics Of Subtraction: The Autobiographical Films Of Frampton, Tarkovsky, And Álvarez, Alexander B. Joy
A Poetics Of Subtraction: The Autobiographical Films Of Frampton, Tarkovsky, And Álvarez, Alexander B. Joy
Doctoral Dissertations
Contemporary critical discussions of autobiographical cinema have linked the theory, practice, and poetics of autobiographical filmmaking to those of self-portraiture. A Poetics of Subtraction complicates the dominant theoretical framework by advocating for the relevance of sculpture and its attendant poetics in the interpretation of autobiographical films. Through a thorough examination of Hollis Frampton's (nostalgia) (1971), Andrei Tarkovsky's Зеркало (Mirror, 1975) and Tempo di viaggio (1983), and Mercedes Álvarez's El cielo gira (2004), this dissertation argues that an understanding of sculpture's processes and poetics is essential for grasping the methods, materials, and meanings of autobiographical films. In particular, …