Truthful fictions [electronic resource] : conversations with American biographical novelists First edition

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서명/저자사항	Truthful fictions [electronic resource]: conversations with American biographical novelists / edited by Michael Lackey.
개인저자	Lackey, Michael, interviewer.
판사항	First edition.
발행사항	New York ; London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
형태사항	1 online resource.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Lackey, Michael, interviewer. Truthful fictions. First edition 9781623567415
ISBN	9781623561826 (electronic bk.) 1623561825 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references.
내용주기	Machine generated contents note: -- Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rise of the American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey -- Interviews: 1. Julia Alvarez: Fixed Facts and Creative Freedom in the Biographical Novel -- 2. Russell Banks: The Truth Contract in the Biographical Novel -- 3. Madison Smartt Bell: Big Revolutionary Bangs in the Biographical Novel -- 4. M. Allen Cunningham: Building the Imaginative Record with the Biographical Novel -- 5. Michael Cunningham: The Biographical Novel and the Complexity of Postmodern Interiors -- 6. Anita Diamant: Imagining a Matrilineal History in the Biographical Novel -- 7. Bruce Duffy: In the Fog of the Biographical Novel's History -- 8. Ron Hansen: Sensualizing and Contextualizing Historical 'Truth' in the Biographical Novel -- 9. Sherry Jones: The Art of Claiming Power in the Biographical Novel -- 10. Rebecca Kanner: Feminist Naming in the Biographical Novel -- 11. Kate Moses: Re-Composing a Life in the Biographical Novel -- 12. Joyce Carol Oates: Enhanced Symbolic Interiors in the Biographical Novel -- 13. Lance Olsen: The Biographical Novel's Practice of Not-Knowing -- 14. Jay Parini: Reflections on Biographical Fiction -- 15. Joanna Scott: The Masking Art of the Biographical Novel -- 16. Edmund White: Gay Interiors and the Biographical Novel -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.
요약	"In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works. These interviews do more than just define an innovative genre of contemporary fiction. They provide a precise way of understanding the complicated relationship and pregnant tensions between contextualized thinking and historical representation, interdisciplinary studies and 'truth' production, and fictional reality and factual constructions. By focusing on classical and contemporary debates regarding the nature of the historical novel, this volume charts the forces that gave birth to a new incarnation of this genre"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Biographical fiction, American --History and criticism. Historical fiction, American --History and criticism. Truth in literature. Realism in literature. Novelists, American --21st century --Interviews. Novelists, American --20th century --Interviews. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. Biographical fiction, American. Historical fiction, American. Literature. Novelists, American. Realism. Truth.
분류기호(DDC)	813.08209
언어	영어
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