Matters of Fact Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge
- List Price: $55.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/1998
Description:
While authors of fiction build worlds that encompass their characters and narratives, a nonfiction text always competes with the lives and events that lie outside it, lives and events it cannot quite contain. Matters of Fact examines how this inside/outside Contest plays over a variety of nonfictional texts, ranging from nineteenth-century narratives by Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew through the writings of Sigmund Freud, John Reed, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion, culminating in a discussion of Tim O'Brien, who has written stories of his experience in the Vietnam War in hybrid combinations of fiction and nonfiction.
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