Sincerity, Reliability and Other Ironies – Notes on Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and the Ethics of Lolita 7
5. Reconceptualizing the Theory, History and Generic Scope of Unreliable Narration: Towards a Synthesis of Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches 29
6. Revising and Extending the Scope of the Rhetorical Approach to Unreliable Narration 77
7. Sincerity, Reliability and Other Ironies – Notes on Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 107
8. Werfel, Weiss and Co. Unreliable Narration in Austrian Literature of the Interwar Period 129
9. Unreliability between Mimesis and Metaphor: The works of Kazuo Ishiguro 147
10. A Sophisticated Form of Lying: Hugo Claus and the Poetics of Unreliability 171
11. ‘Un Fou Raisonnant et Imaginant’. Madness, Unreliability and The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short 185
12. An Eye for an I. Telling as Reading in Bruno Schulz’s Fiction 209
13. Didn’t Know Any Better: Race and Unreliable Narration in “Low-Lands” (1960) by Thomas Pynchon 229
14. Unreliability in Italian Modernist Fiction: The Cases of Italo Svevo and Luigi Pirandello 247
15. “He” Who Knows Better Than “I”: Reactivating Unreliable Narration in Philip Roth’s Human Stain and Jean Echenoz’ Nous trois 259
16. An Unreliable Narrator in an Unreliable World. Negotiating between Rhetorical Narratology, Cognitive Studies and Possible Worlds Theory 281
17. The Deconstruction of the First-Person Narrator in the French New Novel 303
18. First Person, Present Tense. Authorial Presence and Unreliable Narration in Simultaneous Narration 317