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The powers of the false

Wiese, Doro,

The powers of the false reading, writing, thinking beyond truth and fiction / [electronic resource] : Doro Wiese. - Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Flashpoints . - FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Introduction -- The truth of narration and the powers of the false -- Accepting complicated legacies by being once removed from the world : Everything is illuminated (Foer 2002) -- "He looked for truth in facts and not in stories" : crimes of historiography and forces of fabulation in Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish -- Doing time, undoing race: Richard Powers' The time of our singing -- Conclusion.

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Powers, Richard, 1957- --Criticism and interpretation.
Flanagan, Richard, 1961- --Criticism and interpretation.
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977- --Criticism and interpretation.
Powers, Richard, 1957- Time of our singing.
Flanagan, Richard, 1961- Gould's book of fish.
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977- Everything is illuminated.


Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
History in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century


Electronic books.

PS374.H5 / W55 2014

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