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Telling the Truth The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction / Barbara Foley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foley, Barbara, 1948-
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marxist criticism.
- Nonfiction novel--History and criticism.
- Nonfiction novel.
- Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Historical fiction, American.
- Reportage literature, American--History and criticism.
- Reportage literature, American.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Barbara Foley is a Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941, Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro, Wrestling with the Left: the Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution.
- Summary:
- Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current Marxist critics. Foley maintains that Marxist theory has yet to produce a satisfactory theory of mimesis or of the development of genres, and she addresses such key issues as the problem of reference and the nature of generic distinctions. Among the authors whom Foley treats are Defoe, Scott, George Eliot, Joyce, Isherwood, Dos Passos, William Wells Brown, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I: THEORY
- PART II: PRACTICE
- Conclusion
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780801418778
- 0801418771
- 9781501722899
- 1501722891
- OCLC:
- 1057670300
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