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This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable
first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The
different articles in this collection approach this topic both from
the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of
literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions,
characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection
contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable
narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the
different uses to which unreliability has been put in different
contexts, poetical traditions and literary movements. It does so by
tracing the unreliable first-person narrator in a variety of texts
from Dutch, German, American, British, French, Italian, Polish,
Danish and Argentinean literature. In this way, this volume
significantly extends the traditional 'canon' of narrative
unreliability. This collection combines essays from some of the
foremost theoreticians of unreliability (James Phelan, Ansgar
Nunning) with essays from experts in different national traditions.
The result is a collection that approaches the 'case' of narrative
unreliability from a new and more varied perspective.
Covers the major modernist literary works of Broch and constitutes
the first comprehensive introduction in English to his political,
cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Hermann Broch
(1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The
Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945),
which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social
thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the
literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel
that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural
disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was
forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was
challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the
crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and
interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well
as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to
better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions
for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary
works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in
English to Broch's political, cultural, aesthetic, and
philosophical writings. Contributors: Graham Bartram, Brechtje
Beuker, GiselaBrude-Firnau, Gwyneth Cliver, Jennifer Jenkins,
Kathleen L. Komar, Paul Michael Lutzeler, Gunther Martens, Sarah
McGaughey, Judith Ryan, Judith Sidler, Galin Tihanov, Sebastian
Wogenstein. Graham Bartram retired as Senior Lecturer in German
Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Sarah McGaughey is
Associate Professor of German at Dickinson College, USA. Galin
Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature
at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
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