Unreliable Narrator in Russian Literary Tradition

Student: Paniushina Anna

Supervisor: Andrei Kostin

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2020

The present study illustrates the analysis of the specific characteristics of the unreliable narration's phenomena in the Russian literary tradition. To reach this aim here is shown the general outline of this theoretical concept. Also, here are analyzed the literary sources connected to the topic. Through them, there was defined the most relevant concept for considering the definition of unreliable narration. A comparative analysis of Russian fictional texts of the XIX and XXth centuries was also done, and it revealed the specificities of the unreliable narrator's use in the Russian literary tradition, the results of which are given at the end of this work. Keywords: unreliable narrator, reader-response criticism, phenomenological approach, Russian literary tradition

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