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The powers of the false : reading, writing, thinking beyond truth and fiction

Title: The powers of the false : reading, writing, thinking beyond truth and fiction / Doro Wiese.
Author: Wiese, Doro
Publication: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

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Description

xii, 263 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Flashpoints

Uniform Title

FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-257) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The truth of narration and the powers of the false -- Accepting complicated legacies by being once removed from the world : Everything is illuminated (Foer 2002) -- "He looked for truth in facts and not in stories" : crimes of historiography and forces of fabulation in Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish (2003) -- Making time, undoing race: Richard Powers' The time of our singing (2003) -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 15-406

ISBN

9780810130043
0810130041

LCCN

2014004908

OCLC

870439187

Author

Wiese, Doro, author.

Title

The powers of the false : reading, writing, thinking beyond truth and fiction / Doro Wiese.

Publisher

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Flashpoints

FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-257) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-406

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