By Marco Caracciolo
A storyteller’s craft can usually be judged by way of how convincingly the narrative captures the identification and character of its characters. during this e-book, the characters who take middle level are “strange” first-person narrators: they're attention-grabbing as a result of how they're at odds with what the reader would want or count on to hear—while closing reassuringly time-honored in voice, interactions, and conversations. Combining literary research with learn in cognitive and social psychology, Marco Caracciolo makes a speciality of readers’ encounters with the “strange” narrators of ten modern novels, together with Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the top of the World, and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the puppy within the Night-Time. Caracciolo explores readers’ responses to narrators who are suffering from neurocognitive or developmental issues, who're mentally disturbed because of a number of character disease or psychopathy, whose recognition is divided among parallel dimensions or is disembodied, who're animals, or who lose their sanity.
A foray into present paintings on reception, reader-response, cognitive literary examine, and narratology, Strange Narrators in modern Fiction illustrates why any come upon with a fictional textual content is a fancy negotiation of interlaced emotions, concepts, studies, and interpretations.
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