More on Narrative Unreliability

Retropost, 2015:

Latest in the series "Narratologia: Perspectives on Narrative Theory", published by De Gruyter (Berlin, Munich and Boston), vols. 44 and 45, devoted to the issue of unreliability in narrative. Here are the tables of contents (one is a collection in English, the other a monograph in German).

Nünning, Vera, ed. Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (Narratologia, 44). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.* (Theoretical Issues and New Directions; Transgeneric and Intermedial Approaches; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on (Un)reliability).

Nünning, Vera. (Heidelberg). "Conceptualising (Un)reliable Narration and (Un)trustworthiness." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 1-30.*

Margolin, Uri (Alberta). "Theorising Narrative (Un)reliability: A Tentative Road Map." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 31-58.*

Altes, Liesbeth Korthals (Groningen). "What About the Default, or Interpretive Diversity? Some Reflections on Narrative (Un)reliability." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 59-82.*

Nüning, Vera. "Reconceptualising Fictional (Un)reliability and (Un)trustworthiness from a Multidisciplinary Perspective: Categories, Typology and Functions." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 83-108.*

Petterson, Bo (Helsinki). "Kinds of Unreliability in Fiction: Narratorial, Focal, Expositional and Combined." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 109-29*

Vogt, Robert. (Gießen). "Combining Possible-Worlds Theory and Cognitive Theory: Towards an Explanatory Model for Ironic-Unreliable Narration, Ironic-Unreliable Focalization, Ambigous-Unreliable and Alterated-Unreliable Narration in Literary Fiction." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 131-53.*

Martens, Gunther. (Ghent). "Unreliability in Non-Fiction: The Case of the Unreliable Addressee." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 155-70.*

Hühn, Peter. (Hamburg). "Unreliability in Lyric Poetry." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 173-87.*

Nünning, Ansgar, and Christiine Schwanecke. (Gießen). "The Performative Power of Unreliable Narration and Focalisation in Drama and Theatre: Conceptualising the Specificity of Dramatic Unreliability." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 189-219.*

Brütsch, Matthias. (Zurich) "Irony, Retroactivity, and Ambiguity: Three Kinds of 'Unreliable Narration' in Literature and Film." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 221-44.*

Kuhn, Markus. (Hamburg). "(Un)reliability in Fictional and Factual Audiovisual narratives on YouTube." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 245-71.*

Bietz, Chirstoph (Köln). "Tracing Televised 'Truth': Reality Effect and Unreliable Narration in TV News." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 273-302.*

Dernbach, Beatrice. (Nürnberg). "(Un)reliable Narration in Journalism: The Fine Line Between Journalism and Fiction." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 305-28.*

Elter, Andreas. (Köln). "Unreliable Narratives in the US Elections: How Much Reliability Can a Campaign Take?" In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 329-46.*

Arnauld, Andreas von, and Stefan Martini (Kiel). "Unreliable Narration in Law Courts." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 347-70.*

Jaeger, Stephan. (Manitoba). "Unreliable Narration in Historical Studies." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 371-93.*

Mildorf, Jarmila. (Paderborn). "Unreliability in Patient Narratives: From Clinical Assessment to Narrative Practice." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 395-413.*

Boothe, Brigitte, and Dragica Stojkovic. (Zurich). "Communicating Dreams: On the Struggle for Reliable Dream Reporting and the Unreliability of Dream Reports." In Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Vera Nünning. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 415-28.*

Ohme, Andreas. Skaz und Unreliable Narration: Entfurf einer neuen Typologie des Erzählers. (Narratologia, 45). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.*

Ohme, Andreas. "1. Einleitung." In Ohme, Skaz und Unreliable Narration: Entfurf einer neuen Typologie des Erzählers. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 1-6.*

Ohme, Andreas. "2. Zur Theorie des skaz." In Ohme, Skaz und Unreliable Narration: Entfurf einer neuen Typologie des Erzählers. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.* (2.1 Boris Ejchenbaum; 2.2 Viktor Vinogradov; 2.3 Michail Bakhtin; 2.4 Irwin R. Titunik; 2.5 Die Erzählertypologie Lubomír Dolezels; 2.6 Mögliche Bestimmungkriterien für skaz ; 2.7 Rekapitulation und Schlussfolgerungen für das Konzept skaz)

Ohme, Andreas. "3. Zur Theorie von unreliable narration." In Ohme, Skaz und Unreliable Narration: Entfurf einer neuen Typologie des Erzählers. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 117-64.* (3.1 Das Problem der Instanz; 3.2 Das Problem des Gegenstands - Poe, Agatha Christie, Thomas Glavinic, Patrick McGrath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salinger; 3.3 Das Problem des Maßstabs; 3.4 Die semantische Markierung)*

Ohme, Andreas. "4. Zusammenfassung." In Ohme, Skaz und Unreliable Narration: Entfurf einer neuen Typologie des Erzählers. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 265-69.*

Note that Ohme's volume is devoted specifically to what Wayne Booth defined as narrative unreliability—a rhetorical technique in fiction which presupposes the use of a "silent" and reliable implied author, Nünning's volume, though, combines studies on this rhetorical technique with studies on unreliability in a wider sense—which may include unreliable authors or speakers, or unreliable communication generally, as it bears on narrative forms.

El autor implícito y el narrador no fiable—desde nuestro punto de vista