English Literature A-Level
Narrative reliability and storytelling
What Narrative reliability and storytelling means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Multiple perspectives, time shifts and the metafictional ending shape reader judgement about guilt, truth and reliability, and the novel meditates on storytelling itself.
Topics that use Narrative reliability and storytelling
- Elements of crime writing - Set texts (AQA A-Level)
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