HENK0386IU English - Free topic 11: Unreliable or Deluded Narrators (exam form A + B)
Volume 2015/2016
Content
The term "unreliable narrator" is unfortunate because if we cannot trust the narrator of a text whom can we trust? If instead we call the narrator of certain texts deluded we stress the fact that his or her subjective narrative may contain inconsistencies and inherent contradictions as well as ambiguities that make it necessary for us as readers to construct a partly alternative or underlying text.
We shall discuss two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) and "Ligeia" (1838), Henry James' short novel The Turn of the Screw (1989) and Iris Murdoch's novel The Black Prince (1973).
Teaching and learning methods
Class
instruction
Workload
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 28
- Preparation
- 176,75
- Total
- 204,75
Exam (Exam form A + B)
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HENK0386IU
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- See link to schedule
- Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Course responsibles
- Dorrit Einersen (8-6b6f746b78796b74466e7b7334717b346a71)
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31-03-2015