Telling the Truth The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction

Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts d...

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Main Author: Foley, Barbara C. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2018
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