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Narrative Truthiness : The Logic of Complex Truth in Hybrid (Non)Fiction /
"'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"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.