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Is there a word for...

Started by Thomas, May 25, 2018, 08:01:09 AM

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Thomas

... the style of writing employed by authors like H.G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle in their first-person narratives, when they're at constant (and amusing) pains to emphasise the fictional 'truth' of their story?

I'm reading The Lost World (1912) at the moment, for example, and the narrator is frequently pausing to explain when and how he's written each chapter, to reassure the reader as to how he's remembered certain details, and there's a little world-setting foreword.

It leads, at one point, to this particularly fun sentence -

Quote' [...] I can see that what I am writing is destined to immortality as a classic of true adventure.'

Is there a word for that?

BlodwynPig


Twit 2


Hobo With A Shit Pun

The Unreliable Narrator Doth Protest Too Much?

Not a word, I know: TUND-PTM.

Suspiciously Overcompensating Unreliable Narrative Device is SOUND though.

New Jack

Sounds a bit like 'author filibuster'

Thomas

Quote from: Hobo With A Shit Pun on June 13, 2018, 11:39:02 AM
The Unreliable Narrator Doth Protest Too Much?

Not a word, I know: TUND-PTM.

Suspiciously Overcompensating Unreliable Narrative Device is SOUND though.

I like that, SOUND. Look forward to my critical text, The SOUND of Wells and Conan Doyle.