Unreliable Narration in W. Golding’s Novel “Rites of Passage”
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The article is dedicated to unreliable narration in W. Golding’s “Rites of Passage”. The article contains descriptions of various authorial markers of unreliability, such as the characters’ direct and indirect speech, as well as their non-verbal reactions, contradictions between the narrator’s and the implied reader’s views and ethical norms, allusions to the texts by Golding and other authors, informational gaps, the narrator’s accounts of his dreams, the narrator’s writing style, contradictions between two narrators. The article explores how the constantly changing level of unreliability prepares the reader for the complicated journey through the text. The article shows how unreliability is used to introduce one of the central philosophical ideas of the novel — incomprehensibility of life and limitations of human cognitive abilities.
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Голдинг 2000 — Golding, W. Darkness Visible. St. Petersburg, Symposium, 2000, 541 p. (in Russian)
Booth 1978 — Booth W. The rhetoric of fiction. 2nd ed. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1983. 572 p.
Boyd 1988 — Boyd, S. J. The novels of William Golding. Brighton, Harvester Press, 1988. 218 p. (in English)
Chatman 1978 — Chatman, S. Story and Discourse: narrative structure in fiction and film. Ithaca, Cornell Univ. Press, 1978. 277 p. (in English)
Dick 1987 — Dick, B. F. William Golding. Boston; Mass., Twayne, 1987, 168 p. (in English)
Fish 1980 — Fish, S. Is there a text in this class? The authority of interpretive communities. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 1980. 401 p. (in English)
Kinkead-Weekes 2002 — Kinkead-Weekes, M., Gregor I. William Golding: a Critical Study of the Novels. 3rd. rev. ed. London, Faber & Faber, 2002. 423 p. (in English)
Olson 2003 — Olson, G. Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators. In: Narrative, 2003, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 93–109. (in English)
Phelan 2007 — Phelan J. Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and the Ethics of Lolita. In: Narrative. 2007, vol. 15, nr. 2, pp. 222–238. (in English)
Prince 2003 — Prince G. A Dictionary of Narratology. Lincoln, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2003. 137 p. (in English)
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