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MLA Zerweck, Bruno. Historicizing unreliable narration: unreliability and cultural discourse in narrative fiction. Style. Northern Illinois University. 2001. HighBeam Research. 8 Jan. 2012 . Chicago Zerweck, Bruno. Historicizing unreliable narration: unreliability and cultural discourse in narrative fiction. Style. 2001. HighBeam Research. (January 8, 2012). /doc/1G1html APA Zerweck, Bruno. Historicizing unreliable narration: unreliability and cultural discourse in narrative fiction. Style. Northern Illinois University. 2001. Retrieved January 08, 2012 from HighBeam Research: /doc/1G1html Please use HighBeam citations as a starting point only. Not all required citation information is available for every article, and citation requirements change over time. Historicizing unreliable narration: unreliability and cultural discourse in narrative fiction. COPYRIGHT 1998 Northern Illinois University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights or concerns about this content should be directed to Customer Service. Create a link to this page Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog: a href=/doc/1G1html title=Historicizing unreliable narration: unreliability and cultural discourse in narrative fiction. | HighBeam ResearchHistoricizing unreliable narration: unreliability and cultural discourse in narrative fiction./a I. Introduction It seems hardly necessary to emphasize how important the concept of the unreliable narrator has been in literary studies since it was introduced by Wayne C. Booth in 1961. Booths classic definition of the unreliable narrator has survived in nearly all narratological textbooks: I have called a narrator reliable when he speaks for or acts in accordance with the norms of the work (which is to say the implied authors norms), unreliable when he does not (158-59). Recently, however, in the wake of an increasi