The Story of Fictional Truth

Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel

By:

Paul Dawson

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Hardback

Series:

Theory Interpretation Narrativ

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In The Story of Fictional Truth, Paul Dawson looks anew at the historical relationship between the genre of the novel and the concept of fictionality, arguing that existing scholarship on the emergence of realist fiction has been shaped by the trope of the death of the novel. The unexplored logic of this premise is that the novel was born anticipating its own demise, with both its requiem and its reflexive origins legible in the ontological challenge of postmodern metafiction. To test this logic, Dawson traces shifting assumptions about what constitutes the illusion of fictional truth from early novels such as The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751) to contemporary autofiction such as Megan Boyle's Liveblog (2018). In doing so, he contests and revises long-held views about the origins and functions of key formal features of the realist novel by investigating when and how they came to be seen as signposts of fictionality. Through this history, The Story of Fictional Truth opens up new ways to understand the novel's afterlife in a post-truth digital age characterized by a collapse of referentiality.

Author Biography:

Paul Dawson is Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of three books, including The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction.

Release date Australia

February 15th, 2023

Author

Paul Dawson

Series

Theory Interpretation Narrativ

Pages

282

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

illustrations

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780814215470

Product ID

36471834

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