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The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature

The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature

Kliger, Ilya

Paperback

Series: Literature and Philosophy

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0271050772
ISBN13: 9780271050775
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Apr 15 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Its champions--and its detractors--have often understood the novel as the genre par excellence of truthlessness. The Narrative Shape of Truth counters this widely accepted view. It argues instead that the novel has found new, historically specific configurations of truth and narrative. The nineteenth-century novel, in particular, can be understood as responding to the emerging tendency to view truth as inseparable from, rather than opposed to, time. Ilya Kliger offers a nonreductive way of reading the histories of philosophy and the novel side by side. He identifies the crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative when, at the end of the eighteenth century, a new structural affiliation between truth and time emerged.

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