iMatters of Fact/i examines what happens when writers and readers encounter texts presented as nonfiction: texts that make some truth claim on outside experience, texts whose characters and events have at least some tangible dimension outside the written word. The current critical climate blurs most meaningful distinctions between fiction and nonfiction. Literary critics have argued that since experiences can be approached only through the stories we tell about them, it is futile to attempt to produce a single true account of any event. Daniel W. Lehman approaches the fiction/nonfiction...
iMatters of Fact/i examines what happens when writers and readers encounter texts presented as nonfiction: texts that make some truth claim on outs...
John Reed (1887-1920) is best known as the author of "Ten Days That Shook the World" and as champion of the communist movement in the United States. Still, Reed remains a writer almost systematically ignored by the literary critical establishment, even if alternately vilified and lionized by historians and by films like Warren Beatty's" Reds." "John Reed and the Writing of Revolution" examines Reed's writing from a different critical perspectiveone informed by a theoretical and practical understanding of literary nonfiction. In both politics and writing, John Reed defied fashion. In his...
John Reed (1887-1920) is best known as the author of "Ten Days That Shook the World" and as champion of the communist movement in the United States. S...
John Reed (1887-1920) is best known as the author of "Ten Days That Shook the World" and as champion of the communist movement in the United States. Still, Reed remains a writer almost systematically ignored by the literary critical establishment, even if alternately vilified and lionized by historians and by films like Warren Beatty's" Reds." "John Reed and the Writing of Revolution" examines Reed's writing from a different critical perspectiveone informed by a theoretical and practical understanding of literary nonfiction. In both politics and writing, John Reed defied fashion. In his...
John Reed (1887-1920) is best known as the author of "Ten Days That Shook the World" and as champion of the communist movement in the United States. S...
