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Narrative truthiness : the logic of complex truth in hybrid (non)fiction
- Title
- Narrative truthiness : the logic of complex truth in hybrid (non)fiction / Annjeanette Wiese.
- Author
- Wiese, Annjeanette
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "'Narrative Truthiness' presents a new model for understanding truth, and it shows how a specific vein of postmodern writing engages with these ideas, with the overall goal of enhancing our interpretations of the complexities of the human experience"--
- Series Statement
- Frontiers of narrative
- Uniform Title
- Frontiers of narrative.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Narrative truthiness and hybrid (non)fiction : a call for complexity -- Autobiography and memoir. Telling what is true : truthiness and figural truths in Lauren Slater's writing -- In pursuit of truth in life narrative : reading Michael Ondaatje's Running in the family -- Narrative truthiness and the author-reader contract : the failure of Binjamin Wilkomirski's Holocaust memoir -- Fiction. Impossible biographies : theory and (non)fiction in Julian Barnes's Flaubert's parrot -- Narrative truthiness, connectivity, and factuality in fiction : the case of Richard Powers's Three farmers -- Lost (in) history : fact and fiction in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- Other genres and media -- Satire and truth : fake news, The Onion, and the complex nature of narrative truthiness -- Conflicting categories : graphic narratives and the image of truth -- Conclusion: An argument for narrative truthiness : Tim O'Brien and using complex narrative to counter fake news.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8405
- ISBN
- 9781496226792
- 1496226798
- LCCN
- 2021000416
- OCLC
- 1245579531
- Author
- Wiese, Annjeanette, author.
- Title
- Narrative truthiness : the logic of complex truth in hybrid (non)fiction / Annjeanette Wiese.
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Frontiers of narrativeFrontiers of narrative.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8405