The Insane Narrator in Contemporary American Fiction
Description:
This study is an inquiry into the relationship between the contemporary American writer's understanding of American reality and his attempt to convey this reality by the use of an insane first-person point of view character. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the insane narrator's point of view not only recreates the feeling of absurdity through the disjointed point of view of the madman, but also points to the absurdity in contemporary American life. The first part of this study …
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Date:
August 1978
Creator:
Coelen, George Ronald
Partner:
UNT Libraries