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The narrative shape of truth : veridiction in modern European literature.

Its champions-and its detractors-have often understood the novel as the genre par excellence of truthlessness. The Narrative Shape of Truth counters this widely accepted view. It argues instead that the novel has found new, historically specific configurations of truth and narrative. The nineteenth-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kliger, Ilya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] Pennsylvania State University Press 2011.
Colección:Literature and philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The veridictory mutation of the novel
  • Precipitant Knowledge in Balzac
  • The Whole and the Untrue : Stendhal's Fragile Veridiction
  • Enigma and Emplotment in Dostoevsky
  • Tolstoy's Plotlines and Truth Shapes
  • Conclusion : Enduring the schema in modernist time.