Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives

This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century.**

Autorentext

Jan Alber is Professor of English Literature and Cognition at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Alice Bell is Professor of English Language and Literature at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction - The importance of being earnest again: fact and fiction in contemporary narratives across media 1. The return of the 'real' in Ali Smith's Artful (2012) and How to Be Both (2014) 2. Realism for the post-truth era: politics and storytelling in recent fiction and autobiography by Salman Rushdie 3. Reality beckons: metamodernist depthiness beyond panfictionality 4. 'Just because it isn't happening here, doesn't mean it isn't happening': narrative, fictionality and reflexivity in humanitarian rhetoric 5. Fictional characters in a real world: unruly fictionalised encounters in Borat, The Ambassador, and the Yes Men's media hoaxes 6. Changing dominants, changing features? The fiction/nonfiction distinction in contemporary literary and Instagram narratives