Overview
- Explores how the definition of truth has shifted and become a defining element of contemporary literature
- Draws on narrative theory, postmodernism, and theory of the mind
- Demonstrates how the postmodernist and contemporary approaches to multiple versions in narrative differ
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Multiple Narratives, Versions and Truth in the Contemporary Novel considers the shifting perception of truth in fiction. Nicholas Frangipane examines the narrative technique of telling multiple versions of the same sets of events, presenting both true and false versions of the events within a fictional work. This book looks closely at these “Reflexive Double Narratives” in order to understand the way many contemporary writers have attempted to work past postmodernism without forgetting its lessons. Frangipane explores how writers like Ian McEwan, Yann Martel and Alice Munro have departed from the radical experimentation of their predecessors and instead make sincere attempts to find ways that fictional writing can reveal enduring truths, and in so doing, redefine the meaning of “truth” itself and signal the emergence of post-postmodernism.
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About the author
Nicholas Frangipane is Instructor of English at Suffolk University, USA. His essays have appeared in Poetics Today, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Hypermedia Joyce Studies and Brontë Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multiple Narratives, Versions and Truth in the Contemporary Novel
Authors: Nicholas Frangipane
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32193-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32192-5Published: 11 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32193-2Published: 22 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 122
Topics: Contemporary Literature, North American Literature, Literary Theory, Postmodern Literature, American Culture