ISBN10: 0806117141, ISBN13: 9780806117140, [publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr] Hardcover New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
[Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1982]

ISBN10: 0806117141, ISBN13: 9780806117140, [publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma] Hardcover First Edition Slightest of wear to dust jacket edges. Interior clean and unmarked. "Beginning with the assumption that first-person narration demonstrates a marked tendency toward unreliability, William Riggan examines four kinds of narrators in which the process of unreliability is most demonstrably at work: the picaro, the clown, the madman, and the naif. Drawing upon seminal studies in narrative theory by such noted scholars as Wayne Booth, Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, Kate Hamburger, and Bertil Romberg, the author proceeds to examine and define one specific kind of narrator in prominent novels and short stories from American, British, Spanish, German, Latin, and Near Eastern literatures -- that of the unreliable fictional autobiographer."
[Norman, OK, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1981]