Narrative unreliability in the twentieth-century first-person novel /

Contents
ELKE D'HOKER, GUNTHER MARTENS
Introduction .......................................................1
JAMES PHELAN
Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and
the Ethics of Lolita .................................................. 7
ANSGAR NÜNNING
Reconceptualizing the Theory, History and Generic Scope
of Unreliable Narration:
Towards a Synthesis of Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches........ 29
GUNTHER MARTENS
Revising and Extending the Scope of the Rhetorical Approach to
Unreliable Narration .................................................... 77
LIESBETH KORTHALS ALTES
Sincerity, Reliability and Other Ironies - Notes on Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.......... 107
TOM KINDT
Werfel, Weiss and Co. Unreliable Narration in Austrian Literature of the Interwar Period ..................................... 129
ELKE D'HOKER
Unreliability between Mimesis and Metaphor:The works of Kazuo Ishiguro .... 147
ELKE BREMS
A Sophisticated Form of Lying:
Hugo Claus and the Poetics of Unreliability ............................... 171
LARS BERNAERTS
'Un fou raisonnant et imaginant'. Madness, Unreliability and The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short ................................... 185
DIETER DE BRUYN
An Eye for an I. Telling as Reading in Bruno Schulz's Fiction ..... 209
LUC HERMAN, BART VERVAECK
Didn't Know Any Better: Race and Unreliable Narration in "Low-Lands" by Thomas Pynchon ............................................ 231
BART VAN DEN BOSSCHE
Unreliability in Italian Modernist Fiction: The Cases of Italo Svevo and Luigi Pirandello .............................. 247
YASMINE BADIR
"He" Who Knows Better Than "I":
Reactivating Unreliable Narration in Philip Roth's Human Stain and Jean Echenoz' Nous trois................................... 259
ALICE JEDLICKOVÁ
An Unreliable Narrator in an Unreliable World. Negotiating between Rhetorical Narratology, Cognitive Studies and Possible Worlds Theory ................. 281
ELS JONGENEEL
The Deconstruction of the First-Person Narrator in the French New Novel..... 303
PER KROGH HANSEN
First Person, Present Tense. Authorial Presence and Unreliable Narration in Simultaneous Narration ........................... 317