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1st Edition

Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives

Edited By Jan Alber, Alice Bell Copyright 2021
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century. Current cultural theory observes a cultural shift away from postmodernism to new forms of expression. Rather than a radical break from the postmodern, however, postmodernist techniques are repurposed to express a new sincerity, a purposeful self-reflexivity, a contemporary sense... Read more

Introduction – The importance of being earnest again: fact and fiction in contemporary narratives across media

Jan Alber and Alice Bell

1. The return of the ‘real’ in Ali Smith’s Artful (2012) and How to Be Both (2014)

Yvonne Liebermann

2. Realism for the post-truth era: politics and storytelling in recent fiction and autobiography by Salman Rushdie

Julia Hoydis

3. Reality beckons: metamodernist depthiness beyond panfictionality

Alison Gibbons, Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker

4. ‘Just because it isn’t happening here, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening’: narrative, fictionality and reflexivity in humanitarian rhetoric

Stefan Iversen

5. Fictional characters in a real world: unruly fictionalised encounters in Borat, The Ambassador, and the Yes Men’s media hoaxes

Louise Brix Jacobsen

6. Changing dominants, changing features? The fiction/nonfiction distinction in contemporary literary and Instagram narratives

Virginia Pignagnoli

Biography

Jan Alber is Professor of English Literature and Cognition at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Alice Bell is Professor of English Language and Literature at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

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