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Author:

Wiese, Doro, author.

Title:

The powers of the false : reading, writing, thinking beyond truth and fiction / Doro Wiese.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 263 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Foer, Jonathan Safran,--1977---Everything is illuminated.
Flanagan, Richard,--1961---Gould's book of fish.
Powers, Richard,--1957---Time of our singing.
Foer, Jonathan Safran,--1977---Criticism and interpretation.
Flanagan, Richard,--1961---Criticism and interpretation.
Powers, Richard,--1957---Criticism and interpretation.
Foer, Jonathan Safran,--1977-.--Everything is illuminated.
Flanagan, Richard,--1961-.--Gould's Book of Fish.
Powers, Richard,--1957-.--The time of our singing.
American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
History in literature.
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
Wirklichkeit.
Fiktion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-257) and index.

Contents:

Conclusion. The truth of narration and the powers of the false -- Accepting complicated legacies by being once removed from the world : Everything is illuminated (Foer 2002) -- "He looked for truth in facts and not in stories" : crimes of historiography and forces of fabulation in Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish (2003) -- Making time, undoing race: Richard Powers' The time of our singing (2003) -- Conclusion.

Series:

Flashpoints

ISBN:

0810130041 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780810130043 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)870439187

LCCN:

2014004908

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)