Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780367764975 / Miękka / 2023 / 122 str.

Opis

This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

Introduction – The importance of being earnest again: fact and fiction in contemporary narratives across media  1. The return of the ‘real’ in Ali Smith’s Artful (2012) and How to Be Both (2014)  2. Realism for the post-truth era: politics and storytelling in recent fiction and autobiography by Salman Rushdie  3. Reality beckons: metamodernist depthiness beyond panfictionality  4. ‘Just because it isn’t happening here, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening’: narrative, fictionality and reflexivity in humanitarian rhetoric  5. Fictional characters in a real world: unruly fictionalised encounters in Borat, The Ambassador, and the Yes Men’s media hoaxes  6. Changing dominants, changing features? The fiction/nonfiction distinction in contemporary literary and Instagram narratives

O autorze

Jan Alber is Professor of English Literature and Cognition at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Alice Bell is Professor of English Language and Literature at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.