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The Powers of the False : Reading, Writing, Thinking beyond Truth and Fiction / Doro Wiese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiese, Doro, author.
- Series:
- FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
- Flashpoints
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Powers, Richard, 1957---Criticism and interpretation.
- Powers, Richard.
- Flanagan, Richard, 1961---Criticism and interpretation.
- Flanagan, Richard.
- Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977---Criticism and interpretation.
- Foer, Jonathan Safran.
- Powers, Richard, 1957-. Time of our singing.
- Flanagan, Richard, 1961- Gould's book of fish.
- Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977- Everything is illuminated.
- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
- History in literature.
- English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Can literature make it possible to represent histories that are otherwise ineffable?Making use of the Deleuzian concept of "the powers of the false," Doro Wiese offers readings of three novels that deal with the Shoah, with colonialism, and with racialized identities.
- 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
- Doing time, undoing race: Richard Powers' The time of our singing
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-257) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6789-1
- OCLC:
- 893284688
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