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

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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Main Author: Kliger, Ilya (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Pennsylvania State University Press 2011.
Series:Literature and philosophy.
Subjects:
European fiction > History and criticism.
Truth in literature > Philosophy.
Fictions, Theory of.
Literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Truth in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Truth in literature
European fiction
Fictions, Theory of
Literature
Europeiska romaner > historia.
Sanning > i litteraturen.
Fiktionalism.
Narratologi.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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