Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0915 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Unreliable Narrator
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The idea
An unreliable narrator reports in a way the text gives the reader reason to doubt. The glossary has no headword for it. Unit five built the apparatus on Browning's Duke: claims the teller cannot know, judgments outrunning the facts, and detail that undercuts its own purpose.
In practice
The text gives reason to doubt.
Where people slip
Unit five supplied the three tests.
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