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Adelmund, Jurre (2021)

Controlling a Narrative: Video Games and Unreliable Narrators

Bachelor thesis | Engelse taal en cultuur (BA)
This thesis compares contemporary definitions of Unreliable Narrators in literature with those found in video games. By exploring the first author-based definition of Unreliable Narrators put forward by Booth, and a later reader-based definition, this thesis aims to provide proof for an additional definition being needed when it comes to video games. What this thesis mainly finds is that games offer a unique experience through how players control a narrative, which leads to a different experience of unrealibility in narrators, one that can contrast unreliability that other definitions might find.
Video Games
Unreliable Narrators
Literary Theory
Literary Analysis
Author
Adelmund, Jurre
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Game Studies and Cultural Analysis
Supervisors
Polak, S. A.
ECTS Credits
10
Language
en