Multiple Narratives, Versions and Truth in the Contemporary Novel. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nicholas Frangipane.
• Authors: Frangipane, Nicholas
• Contents: 1. Introduction1.1 Moving Past Postmodernism1.2 The Value of Fiction1.3 Post-Postmodernism?1.4 Truth? 2. Shifting Attitudes Towards the Verisimilitude of Narrative in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 2.1 A Modernist Sense of Unease 2.2 From Modernist Unease to Postmodernist Incredulity 2.3 Productive Potential in Contemporary Fiction 3. The Quality of Qualia: Truth and Ethics in Reflexive Double Narratives 3.1 Postmodernist and Post-Postmodernist Double Narratives: Similar Styles, Different Aims 3.2 Alice Munro and Qualia 3.3 The Distinction of (Non) Fiction?: Double Narratives and Ethics in Non-Fictional Texts 4. Joyful Solipsism: Implied Multiple Narratives in the Contemporary Novel 4.1 Unknowability in Contemporary Novels 5. Double Memories: Multiple Versions of Memories as a Way to Understand Characters and Ourselves 5.1 Stories and Minds 5.2 The Productive Potential of Two Versions of a Memory in Post-Postmodernist Fiction 6. Conclusion: A Dark Turn and Other Manifestations 6.1 Post-Postmodernism and Post-Truth 6.2 Other Manifestations.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Pivot
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (122 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Social Science -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Literary studies: from c 1900; Cultural studies; Literature, Modern--20th century; Literature, Modern--21st century; America--Literatures; Literature--Philosophy; United States--Study and teaching
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030321932
• Related ISBNs: 9783030321925
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