What is it about?
Some texts offer to the reader/viewer ambiguity and in-betweenness and they effectively contradict reality within the world of the story and within the world of the reader/viewer. In this paper we look at three distinct fictitious texts as our case studies (Blow-Up [fiction film], Austerlitz [novel] and Mindgame [theatrical play]), which confuse the reader/viewer with their particular ways of contradicting reality.
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Why is it important?
We argue that our case studies not only surprise and disturb the reader/viewer with plot twists, reverse chronology, unreliable narrators, ambiguous perceptions of the protagonists and so on, but they also bring a critical eye to the dominant concepts and the working institutions of the society; and also to the dominant ways of perceiving reality
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We hope that this article will encourage discussions about unsettling reality through ambiguous storytelling in different narratives.
Prof Tolga Hepdincler
Bahcesehir Universitesi
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This page is a summary of: Ambiguous storytelling in three texts: unsettling the perception of reality, Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/text-2016-0028.
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