Frontiers of Narrative #: Narrative Truthiness

The Logic of Complex Truth in Hybrid (Non)Fiction

Frontiers of Narrative #: Narrative Truthiness
Annjeanette Wiese
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 266pg
1 Oct 2021 US
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9781496226792
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Narrative Truthiness explores the complex nature of truth by adapting Stephen Colbert' s concept of truthiness (which on its own repudiates complexity) into something nuanced and positive, what Annjeanette Wiese calls "narrative truthiness. " Narrative truthiness holds on to the importance of facts while complicating them by looking at different types of truth, as well as the complexity, contradictions, and consequences of truth in the context of human experience. Wiese uses narrative theory to analyze several examples of hybrid (non)fiction: works that refuse to exist as either fiction or nonfiction alone and that challenge monolithic definitions of truth. She examines memoirs by Lauren Slater, Michael Ondaatje, Binjamin Wilkomirski, Tim O' Brien; fiction by Julian Barnes, Richard Powers, W. G. Sebald; Onion headlines; comics and graphic memoirs by Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and David Small; and fake news. Narrative Truthiness foregrounds the complexity that is inherent in human understanding and experience and in the process demonstrates the significance of the complex tensions between what we feel to be true and what is true, and how we are shaped by both.

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Narrative Truthiness: The Logic of Complex Truth in Hybrid (Non)Fiction

"Beautifully written, Narrative Truthiness takes the reader on a trip through lies, hoaxes, satire, the search for origins, the fabrication of memories, the construction of the verisimilar, and-through all these narrative modes and themes-the quest for authenticity. Wiese makes a powerful plea in favor of a literary conception of truth that acknowledges the complexity of truth and does not limit it to the accurate presentation of facts, without, however, rejecting any kind of factuality. "-Marie-Laure Ryan, coeditor of Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology "Narrative Truthiness provides a new window into thinking about the interactions between fact and fiction, and how we need one to understand the other, through a focus on texts that straddle the line between representative and fictional narrative. It is well researched and theoretically sophisticated. "-Marjorie Worthington, author of The Story of "Me": Contemporary American Autofiction
Annjeanette Wiese is an instructor of humanities and is the director of undergraduate studies for the humanities program at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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ISBN-13: 9781496226792
Published: 1 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 266

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