Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Jerusalem) under the title: Self-Deception of Narrating Characters: from the Subject in Analytical Philosophy to the Homodiegetic Narrator and Back.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.
Processing Action (note)
committed to retain
Contents
Defining self-deception -- Paradoxes of self-deception and their solutions -- Self-deception: questions of authority and evaluation -- The unreliable narrator -- Two versions of the story: Charles Dickens's Great expectations -- Two hypotheses for the narration: Max Frisch's Homo Faber -- The role of narration in the release from self-deception: Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day -- The self-deceived and the other-deceiving narrating character: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- Albert Camus's La chute: the dynamics of narrative unreliability -- The neutral narration--in search of non-existent certainty: Alain Robbe-Grillet's La jalousie -- An examination of the mutual illumination of philosophy and narratology as regards self-deception.