TY - BOOK AU - Wiese,Doro ED - Project Muse. TI - The powers of the false: reading, writing, thinking beyond truth and fiction T2 - Flashpoints SN - 9780810167896 AV - PS374.H5 W55 2014 U1 - 813.609358 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Evanston, Illinois PB - Northwestern University Press KW - Powers, Richard, KW - Flanagan, Richard, KW - Foer, Jonathan Safran, KW - Truthfulness and falsehood in literature KW - History in literature KW - English fiction KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - American fiction KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780810167896/ ER -