The Ethics of Nonfiction: Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity

by George H. Jensen

Book Overview

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms - including the personal essay and memoir - and ethical questions that arise in relation to them, such as truth claims, the confessional mode, counter-narratives. Drawing on the ideas of Bakhtin, Nietzsche and Foucault; examples from creative non-fiction writers such as Strayed and Knausgaard; and the founding principles of the originators of the genre, Seneca, Augustine and Montaigne, George Jensen argues that a limited conception of nonfiction leads to a limited view of its ethics. Writing about the truth in an authentic way is more important than ever before - and essential to this is the creation of the ethical subject.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031391853
• ISBN13: 9783031391859
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"