Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel - Softcover

Davis, Lennard J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812216105 ISBN 13: 9780812216103

Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

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Book by Davis Lennard J

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"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the hidden contradictions in a genre that, even in the age of Derrida and De Man, readers are inclined to take at face value."-Village Voice "Factual Fictions is fresh, well-written, and often illuminating. Lennard Davis makes us see the novel as a text among other texts, an autonomous object determined by society's laws, culture, and technology as much as by the special qualities of its author and audience, and a reflection of that 'lost moment' when one might observe 'the unity of news, novels, ideology, history, fact, and fiction'."-Yearbook of English Studies

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"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h

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• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0812216105
• ISBN 13: 9780812216103
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260