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unreliable narrator: a standalone construct

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Narratology

a narrator whose account does not match the norms of the work's implied author, so readers must look past what the narrator says.

In narratology, unreliable narrator refers to a narrator whose account does not match the norms of the work's implied author, so readers must look past what the narrator says. This meaning comes from Booth (1961) in The rhetoric of fiction.[1]

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References

Booth, W. C. (1961). The rhetoric of fiction. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226065564

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