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