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Narrative truthiness : the logic of complex truth in hybrid (non)fiction / Annjeanette Wiese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiese, Annjeanette, author.
- Series:
- Frontiers of Narrative
- Frontiers of narrative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Creative nonfiction--History and criticism.
- Creative nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496228543
- 1496228545
- 9781496228550
- 1496228553
- OCLC:
- 1263867140
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