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<p>The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issue of unreliability in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro deploying the rhetorical approach to narratives - which conceives of narratives as a purposive communicative act - and a range of signifiers and signifieds as defined by Wayne C. Booth, James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz. By contrasting two possible readings of this book, i.e. its common reading as a dystopian novel vs the author’s recommendation of reading it as an allegorical novel, one has the possibility to nuance the issue of reliability.</p>
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issue of unreliability in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro deploying the rhetorical approach to narratives - which conceives of narratives as a purposive communicative act - and a range of signifiers and signifieds as defined by Wayne C. Booth, James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz. By contrasting two possible readings of this book, i.e. its common reading as a dystopian novel vs the author’s recommendation of reading it as an allegorical novel, one has the possibility to nuance the issue of reliability.

A Rhetorical Approach to Narrative Unreliability in <italic>Never Let Me Go</italic>

Lecturer, PhD, ‘G.E. Palade’ University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș

Acta Marisiensis. Philologia

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A Rhetorical Approach to Narrative Unreliability in 

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issue of unreliability in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro deploying the rhetorical approach to narratives - which...

A Rhetorical Approach to Narrative Unreliability in Never Let Me Go

Published Online: Feb 01, 2023

Page range: 1 - 4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amph-2022-0031

Keywords
the rhetorical approach to narrative, reliable vs unreliable narrators, dystopian novel, allegorical novel

© 2022 Corina Alexandrina Lirca, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

A Rhetorical Approach to Narrative Unreliability in Never Let Me Go

Published Online: Feb 01, 2023

Page range: 1 - 4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amph-2022-0031

Keywordsthe rhetorical approach to narrative, reliable vs unreliable narrators, dystopian novel, allegorical novel

© 2022 Corina Alexandrina Lirca, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
the rhetorical approach to narrative, reliable vs unreliable narrators, dystopian novel, allegorical novel