Narrative Unreliability in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin – Mgr. Jana Mališová
Mgr. Jana Mališová
Bachelor's thesis
Narrative Unreliability in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin
Narrative Unreliability in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin
Abstract:
Strhující příběh románu Margaret Atwood Slepý vrah, vystavěný na pozoruhodně komplexní formální struktuře, konfrontuje čtenáře se základními etickými problémy: nevinnost a vina, moc a bezmocnost. Margaret Atwood využívá nejrůznější aspekty nespolehlivého vyprávění a neustále zpochybňuje interpretace, které si čtenáři utvářejí v průběhu četby, čímž zdůrazňuje nejednoznačnost a nesnadnou uchopitelnost …moreAbstract:
Margaret Atwood’s novel The Blind Assassin combines an intriguing story with a striking and very complex narrative structure, while confronting the readers with fundamental ethical issues of innocence and guilt, power and powerlessness. Margaret Atwood uses different aspects of narrative unreliability to perpetually destabilize the readers’ interpretations and to enhance the ambiguity of her narrative …more
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 15. 5. 2017
Identifier:
https://is.muni.cz/th/hvglb/
Thesis defence
- Date of defence: 13. 6. 2017
- Supervisor: Mgr. Robert Švábenský
- Reader: doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.
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Philology / English Language and Literature
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