The aim of this thesis is to investigate the change of the reliability of narrator in Korean modern novels. The unreliable narrator appears in many 1920`s Korean novel. These novels are unreliable because of the confusion in narrative strategies, poi...
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the change of the reliability of narrator in Korean modern novels. The unreliable narrator appears in many 1920`s Korean novel. These novels are unreliable because of the confusion in narrative strategies, point of view, tense, narrative situation, etc. The unreliable narrator appears in many 1930`s Korean novel too. But in 1930`s Korean novel, unreliable narrators are made choice of author`s aesthetic intention. Authors of 1930`s Korean novel made use of a reliable narrator that is a device for aesthetic effect, comedic effect and allegoric situation and so on. The change of the reliability of narrator during this twenty years has been the process of development of narrative technique in Korean modern novel.