A Sad Monologist: Unreliable Reporting of Dialogue in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World

The article addresses the question of who reports the dialogue in fictional texts featuring an unreliable narrator. Since no human being can remember and reproduce lengthy conversations accurately, some narrative theorists attribute direct speech representation to the author instead of the character...

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Main Author: Laura Karttunen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 2016-05-01
Series:International Journal of Literary Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/article/view/59