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A RHETORICAL APPROACH TO NARRATIVE UNRELIABILITY IN NEVER LET ME GO
A RHETORICAL APPROACH TO NARRATIVE UNRELIABILITY IN NEVER LET ME GO

Author(s): Corina Alexandrina Lirca
Subject(s): Novel, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura University Press, Universitatea de Medicina, Farmacie, Stiinte si Tehnologie “George Emil Palade” din Targu Mures
Keywords: the rhetorical approach to narrative; reliable vs unreliable narrators; dystopian novel; allegorical novel;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issue of unreliability in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro deploying the rhetorical approach to narratives - which conceives of narratives as a purposive communicative act - and a range of signifiers and signifieds as defined by Wayne C. Booth, James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz. By contrasting two possible readings of this book, i.e. its common reading as a dystopian novel vs the author’s recommendation of reading it as an allegorical novel, one has the possibility to nuance the issue of reliability.

  • Issue Year: 2/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 122-126
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English
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