Being untruthful : lying, fiction, and the non-factual /
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| Language: | English |
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Baden-Baden :
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft,
2021.
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| Series: | Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Introducing the Lie to Narratology: Concepts, Contexts, and Functions of Lying as Non-Factual Discourse
- I. Theoretical Approaches to Lying and the Nonfactual
- Lying and Self-Consciousness in Human Development
- Unlawful and Lawful Lies
- Lying in Counterfactual Fiction: On the Critical Function of Metafactuality
- Waiting for the Emperor's New Clothes: The Temporal Order of the Public Lie
- Games of False Identity: Liars and Lying in Literature
- II. Historical Perspectives: Lies, Fictions, Dissimulations
- 'Lying' as a Term for 'Fiction' in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
- 'Feigning Properly': Fiction, Lying, and Moral Philosophy in the Writings of William Baldwin
- Dissimulation and Lack of Trust: A Central Problem in Politics and Inter-Confessional Relations at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
- Truth, Lies, and the Good Life in Michel de Montaigne, Madeleine de Scudéry, and Several Others
- Born with a Lie in My Mouth"": Counterfeit and Counterfactuality in It-Narratives
- A Shocking Deception"": Legal Fictions and Lying in The Woman in White and No Name
- III. Contemporary Extensions: Playing with Facts and the Non-Factual
- Truth Be Told: The Aesthetics of Lying in Contemporary Theater
- How to Tell a True Migration Story: Authenticity and (Non)Fictionality in Contemporary US-American Migration Narratives
- This Narrator Nothing Affirms, Therefore He Lies? Truthspeaking and Discursive Power in Teju Cole's Open City
- Ambiguous Counter-Discourses. Documentary Literature and the Perpetrator
- On the Authors