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"This volume ranges widely over literary works of many centuries and diverse cultures. It discusses: why the topic has seemed so important to so many authors and readers; how the terms 'truth' and 'lies' have been diversely defined; how (if at all) literature can contribute...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Salem Press
Other Authors: Evans, Robert C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing, [2022]
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Truth in literature.
Deception in literature.
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About this volume / Robert C. Evans
  • Truth and lies in literature : some examples from Shakespeare / Robert C. Evans
  • Fact or fiction, truth or lies? : an introduction to "The Kentucky tragedy" / Steven D. Ealy
  • Secrecy in American literature and culture : an overview / Joyce Ahn
  • Literature and knowledge / Derek Allan
  • The play's the thing : masking in Hamlet and Mansfield Park / Brandon Schneeberger
  • Truth and lies in life, literature, and literary theory / Edwin Wong
  • Men and women, truth and lies in two intriguing poems from the English Renaissance / Robert C. Evans
  • Truth and lies in early modern literature / Brandon Schneeberger
  • Lies, truth, and parable in Tolstoy's "The death of Ivan Ilych" / Christopher Baker
  • Marlow's "European mind" : subjective truth and the unreliable narrator in Lord Jim / Matthew M. Thiele
  • "Truth" and "falsehood" in the paranormal thought of J.R.R. Tolkien / Nancy Bunting
  • "Truth" and "lies" in the life and career of Zora Neale Hurston : new evidence from African American newspapers from 1925 to the early 1940s / Robert C. Evans
  • "Truth" and "lies" in the life and career of Zora Neale Hurston : new evidence from African American newspapers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s / Robert C. Evans
  • Multi-level truths and lies in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / Franco Manni
  • "My offences against veracity" : truth, lies, and literature in Ian McEwan's Atonement / Darren Harris-Fain
  • Additional works on truth and lies.