{"product_id":"narrative-truthiness-9781496226792","title":"Narrative Truthiness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNarrative Truthiness\u003c\/i\u003e explores the complex nature of truth by adapting Stephen Colbert’s concept of truthiness (which on its own repudiates complexity) into something nuanced and positive, what Annjeanette Wiese calls “narrative truthiness.” Narrative truthiness holds on to the importance of facts while complicating them by looking at different types of truth, as well as the complexity, contradictions, and consequences of truth in the context of human experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wiese uses narrative theory to analyze several examples of hybrid (non)fiction: works that refuse to exist as either fiction or nonfiction alone and that challenge monolithic definitions of truth. She examines memoirs by Lauren Slater, Michael Ondaatje, Binjamin Wilkomirski, Tim O’Brien; fiction by Julian Barnes, Richard Powers, W. G. Sebald;\u003ci\u003eOnion\u003c\/i\u003e headlines; comics and graphic memoirs by Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and David Small; and fake news.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNarrative Truthines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eNarrative Truthiness\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader on a trip through lies, hoaxes, satire, the search for origins, the fabrication of memories, the construction of the verisimilar, and—through all these narrative modes and themes—the quest for authenticity. Wiese makes a powerful plea in favor of a literary conception of truth that acknowledges the complexity of truth and does not limit it to the accurate presentation of facts, without, however, rejecting any kind of factuality.”—Marie-Laure Ryan, coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePossible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNarrative Truthiness\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new window into thinking about the interactions between fact and fiction, and how we need one to understand the other, through a focus on texts that straddle the line between representative and fictional narrative. It is well researched and theoretically sophisticated.”—Marjorie Worthington, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of “Me”: Contemporary American Autofiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Narrative Truthiness and Hybrid (Non)Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Autobiography and Memoir\u003cbr\u003e 1. Telling What Is True: Truthiness and Figural Truths in Lauren Slater’s Writing\u003cbr\u003e 2. In Pursuit of Truth in Life Narrative: Reading Michael Ondaatje’s \u003ci\u003eRunning in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Narrative Truthiness and the Author-Reader Contract: The Failure of Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Memoir \u003ci\u003eFragments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Fiction\u003cbr\u003e 4. Impossible Biographies: Theory and (Non)Fiction in Julian Barnes’s \u003ci\u003eFlaubert’s Parrot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Narrative Truthiness, Connectivity, and Factuality in Fiction: The Case of Richard Powers’s \u003ci\u003eThree Farmers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Lost (in) History: Fact and Fiction in W. G. Sebald’s \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Other Genres and Media\u003cbr\u003e 7. Satire and Truth: Fake News, the \u003ci\u003eOnion\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Complex Nature of Narrative Truthiness\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conflicting Categories: Graphic Narratives and the Image of Truth\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: An Argument for Narrative Truthiness—Tim O’Brien and Using Complex Narrative to Counter Fake News\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409236238679,"sku":"9781496226792","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496226792.jpg?v=1730506082","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/narrative-truthiness-9781496226792","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}