Poe’s Unreliable Narrator The Reader as a Privileged Witness and the Narrator´s Credibility

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Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez

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An unreliable narrator (prisoner of madness, full of lies...) is one of the most powerful weapons an author can use. As we shall see, the effects multiply when that writer is Edgar Allan Poe. On the other hand, or in addition, if there is something that can delight more than reading Poe, that is teaching Poe. His narrators, those that appear in stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart" or "The Black Cat" offer a magnificent example for our project. Mentally unstable, despite their (intended?) intentions of reliability, these narrators often move away subjectively from the facts. That is why these stories will be part of the corpus of narratives that we present here.

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Poe’s Unreliable Narrator: The Reader as a Privileged Witness and the Narrator´s Credibility. (2020). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 6(5), 128-150. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2020.4137

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