Books in the Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media series

The plot runs from 1771 to 1801 and is chronologically contradiction-free. Ellen's story is fair with some deliberate inaccuracies. Catherine becomes pregnant only after Mr. Heathcliff's return. Mr. Heathcliff's ancestors and descendants cannot be determined. He dies at 38 from a tetanic seizure caused by a supposed ghost, which is probably Cathy.

This collection of essays is based on the cooperation between the Freiburg graduate school Factual and Fictional Narration and the Aarhus Centre of Fictionality Studies. It re-examines the much discussed fact fiction distinction in light of the current burgeoning of research on fictionality.

This book examines unreliable narration in novels by Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch. It offers new perspectives on the two authors' oeuvre and on narrative unreliability as a narratological concept. It demarcates unreliable narration from related phenomena, such as unnatural narration, and points out similarities in Ishiguro's and Frisch's work.

This study offers a comprehensive reading of Byatt's major novels. It highlights her textual strategies in interrelating her memories of the past with the history of ideas. Connections between narrative, cognitive science, and visual and literary culture display the full range of contextual references woven into her work.