Narralogues: Truth in Fiction (SUNY Series, the Margins of Literature) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Narralogues In Narralogues, Ronald Sukenick continues his important and original contributions to the cutting edge of contemporary fiction. Here he proposes fiction as a medium for telling the truth, while recognizing that the implicit contradiction in these terms is more than cheap paradox. The "narralogues", simultaneously narrative and argument, story and rhetorical pleading, exemplify and argue for fictio...
Full description- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Published: 10 March 2000
- Format: Paperback 128 pages
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- Categories: Semantics | Literature: History & Criticism | Literary Theory
- ISBN 13: 9780791444009 ISBN 10: 0791444007
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Full description for Narralogues
In Narralogues, Ronald Sukenick continues his important and original contributions to the cutting edge of contemporary fiction. Here he proposes fiction as a medium for telling the truth, while recognizing that the implicit contradiction in these terms is more than cheap paradox. The "narralogues", simultaneously narrative and argument, story and rhetorical pleading, exemplify and argue for fiction as persuasion in a sequence that moves from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, using throughout all the traditional techniques of fiction, from comedy and irony to suspense and the erotic.
