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'''Unreliable narrator''' is a literary technique wherein doubt is cast, through the use of juxtaposed untruths and specious logic, on the narrator's account of a story and its truth. This is often done for the purposes of parody. A famous example of this technique is in [[John Kennedy Toole]]'s ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]''. | '''Unreliable narrator''' is a literary technique wherein doubt is cast, through the use of juxtaposed untruths and specious logic, on the narrator's account of a story and its truth. This is often done for the purposes of parody. A famous example of this technique is in [[John Kennedy Toole]]'s ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]''. | ||
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Revision as of 05:30, May 6, 2008
Unreliable narrator is a literary technique wherein doubt is cast, through the use of juxtaposed untruths and specious logic, on the narrator's account of a story and its truth. This is often done for the purposes of parody. A famous example of this technique is in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.