...Tamar Yacobi As defined in my previous work, (un)reliability is one of five types of hypothesis or integration mechanism, whereby readers account for textual incongruities. In principle, we may always appeal to alternative logics of resolution: ambiguous data may be attributed to generic convention...

...Meir Sternberg; Tamar Yacobi 1 The State of the Art: A Field in Trouble. 2 (Un)Reliable Discourse off to a Stimulating Equivocal Start: Why Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction Falls Short and Where to Go from There: 2.1 Stammering between Narrator and Implied Author, or, Why the Author Needs...

... of the discourse. For instance, explicitness often compensates for deviance, where (as in Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata ) the work advocates idiosyncratic norms. Narrative and Normative Pattern: On Interpreting Fiction, with Special Regard to (Un)Reliability Tamar Yacobi Tel Aviv University, Literature...

...Paul McCormick Self-conscious character narration provides special opportunities for authors to signal (un)reliability. This article focuses on one such opportunity. When narrators like John Dowell in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier consistently assert moral and cognitive distance from...

... the rhetorical model and the constructivist model in fiction studies. To illustrate autobiographical unreliability, this essay analyzes two autobiographies by Frederick Douglass in terms of intertextual unreliability and a recent Chinese autobiography in terms of extratextual (un)reliability. In both cases...

... Nu¨nning, it aims “to initiate an inter- disciplinary dialogue on the concept of (un)reliability” (4), since the literary discussion of the phenomenon has much to gain from the way other research traditions conceptualize it. For example, some relevant work has been done with regard...

... dialogue on the concept of (un)reliability” (4), since the literary discussion of the phenomenon has much to gain from the way other research traditions conceptualize it. For example, some relevant work has been done with regard to “the concept of trust or trustworthiness [which appears in the volume’s...

... Nu¨nning, it aims “to initiate an inter- disciplinary dialogue on the concept of (un)reliability” (4), since the literary discussion of the phenomenon has much to gain from the way other research traditions conceptualize it. For example, some relevant work has been done with regard...

... Nu¨nning, it aims “to initiate an inter- disciplinary dialogue on the concept of (un)reliability” (4), since the literary discussion of the phenomenon has much to gain from the way other research traditions conceptualize it. For example, some relevant work has been done with regard...

... Nu¨nning, it aims “to initiate an inter- disciplinary dialogue on the concept of (un)reliability” (4), since the literary discussion of the phenomenon has much to gain from the way other research traditions conceptualize it. For example, some relevant work has been done with regard...

...). Yacobi, Tamar 1981 “Fictional Reliability as a Communicative Problem,” Poetics Today 2 ( 2 ): 113 -26. 1987 “Narrative and Normative Pattern: On Interpreting Fiction,” Journal of Literary Studies 3 : 18 -41. 2001 “Package Deals in Fictional Narrative: The Case of the Narrator's (Un...

... in the literature department in Tel Aviv University. She has written on (un)reliability, narrative communication, ekphrasis and intermedial relations, the communicative structure of metaphor, and on the poetics of Henry James, Isak Dinesen, and Dan Pagis in Poetics Today, Style, and other journals...

... (1996). Currently she is editor of PartialAnswers:AJournalofLiteratureandthe History of Ideas. Tamar Yacobi teaches in the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has written on narrative theory, the narrator’s (un)reliability, and ekphrasis in Poetics...

... University. She has written on ekphrasis, the narrator’s (un)reliability, narrative communication, the poetics of Henry James, Isak Dinesen, and Dan Pagis in Poetics Today, Style, and other journals and collections. Among her recent publications is “Metaphors in Context: The Communicative Structure...

... Rhythm: Structure and Performance— An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics Tamar Yacobi teaches in the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. Her publications include studies in ekphrasis, narrative theory, and the (un)reliability of communicators. ...

... historical survey of the main stages in the development of forms and functions of metanarration in the English novel, from the Elizabethan period to the twentieth century. Dieter Meindl’s Un-)Reliable Narration from a Pronominal Perspec- tive’’ also focuses on narration. Meindl’s essay starts from Käte...

... Mouton ). Yacobi Tamar 1981 “Fictional Reliability as a Communicative Problem,” Poetics Today 2 ( 2 ): 113 – 26 . 2000 “Interart Narrative: (Un)Reliability and Ekphrasis,” Poetics Today 21 ( 4 ): 711 – 49 . 2001 “Package Deals in Fictional Narrative: The Case...

... Un-)Reliable Narration from a Pronominal Perspec- tive’’ also focuses on narration. Meindl’s essay starts from Käte Ham- burger’s (1993 [1968]) sharp distinction between rst-person’’ and ‘‘third- person’’ narration as representing two very different types of statements about reality. Meindl uses...

... 8 : 335 -72. 2000 “Interart Narrative: (Un)Reliability and Ekphrasis,” Poetics Today 21 : 708 -47. 2001 “Package Deals: The Narrator's (Un)Reliability,” Narrative 9 : 223 -29. 2005 “Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability, Divergent Readings: Tolstoy's Kreutzer...

... historical survey of the main stages in the development of forms and functions of metanarration in the English novel, from the Elizabethan period to the twentieth century. Dieter Meindl’s Un-)Reliable Narration from a Pronominal Perspec- tive’’ also focuses on narration. Meindl’s essay starts from Käte...