The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature

by Ilya Kliger

Its champions--and its detractors--have often understood the novel as the genre par excellence of truthlessness. The Narrative Shape of Truth counters this widely accepted view. It argues instead that the novel has found new, historically specific configurations of truth and narrative. The nineteenth-century novel, in particular, can be understood as responding to the emerging tendency to view truth as inseparable from, rather than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271050772
• ISBN13: 9780271050775
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"