The powers of the false [electronic resource] : reading, writing, thinking beyond truth and fiction / Doro Wiese.
Material type: TextSeries: FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780810167896
- 0810167891
- 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 -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- 813.609358 23
- PS374.H5 W55 2014
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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