Fictional Truth Paperback - 1990
by Riffaterre, Michael
- Used
This book identifies and discusses the features that give fictional narratives their ring of truth, testing the author's theories against the works of Austen, Dickens, Balzac, James, Proust, and others.
Description
Details
- Title Fictional Truth
- Author Riffaterre, Michael
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1990-01-19
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6437710-6
- ISBN 9780801839344 / 0801839343
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.45 x 5.36 x 0.52 in (21.46 x 13.61 x 1.32 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Fiction - History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89045491
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.391
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From the publisher
From the rear cover
In "Fictional Truth" Riffaterre identifies and discusses the features that give fictional narratives their ring of truth. He offers a semiotic revision of traditional narratology, sets forth a new theory of intertextual overdetermination, and presents an analysis of the manifestation of narrative content through the operations of an intertextual unconscious. Throughout, Riffaterre tests theory against close readings of fiction by such authors as Austen, Balzac, Dickens, James, Meredith, Proust, and Trollope. An introduction and glossary of terms help make this an indispensable volume for the students as well as the specialist.
