UNRELIABLE NARRATIVE STRATEGY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING – THE CASE OF SPARE BY PRINCE HARRY
UNRELIABLE NARRATIVE STRATEGY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING – THE CASE OF SPARE BY PRINCE HARRY
Author(s): Sanja J. IgnjatovićSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: discordant narration; metafiction; autobiography; memoir; textual narcissism; figural narcissism; fictionality; non-fiction
Summary/Abstract: The paper problematizes unreliable narration in autobiographical writing, exploring the rhetorical effects produced in the process of narrativization that challenge genre conventions in terms of the relativization of objective reality in subjective interpretations. Therefore, the paper analyzes discordant and estranging narration as the outcome of textual effects and the rhetorical layering produced by the author-narrator. The theoretical grounds for the exploration of the types of unreliable narration involves a discussion on authorial fictionalization, the role of fictionality in non-fiction as the rhetorical veil between story and narrative discourse, and textual and figurative narcissism. Illustrations come from Spare (2023), the memoir authored and published by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, and his ghostwriter J. R. Moehringer.
Journal: Folia Linguistica et Litteraria
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 49
- Page Range: 111-127
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
