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The Ethics of Nonfiction: Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity

The Ethics of Nonfiction: Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity

Jensen, George H.

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 3031391853
ISBN13: 9783031391859
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms - including the personal essay and memoir - and ethical questions that arise in relation to them, such as truth claims, the confessional mode, counter-narratives. Drawing on the ideas of Bakhtin, Nietzsche and Foucault; examples from creative non-fiction writers such as Strayed and Knausgaard; and the founding principles of the originators of the genre, Seneca, Augustine and Montaigne, George Jensen argues that a limited conception of nonfiction leads to a limited view of its ethics. Writing about the truth in an authentic way is more important than ever before - and essential to this is the creation of the ethical subject.

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