Unreliability refigured: Narrative in literature and film

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (1):19-29 (1995)
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Aims to improve an understanding of the theoretical issues in response to the influence of fiction. Four things in narrative unreliability; Relation between narration in literary fictions and film; Comprehension of narrative essentially a matter of intentional inference; Fictions misdescribed; Asymmetry between literature and film; Ambiguity and unreliability; Implied author and narrator.

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