Real Fictions
Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 29:2 (2019)
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[Narrative Inquiry, 29:2] 2019. v, 189 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 October 2019
Published online on 16 October 2019
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Table of Contents
- Real fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytellingSam Browse, Alison Gibbons & Mari Hatavara | pp. 245–267
- Adjusting to new “truths”: The relation between the spatio-temporal context and identity work in repeated WWII-testimoniesKim Schoofs & Dorien Van De Mieroop | pp. 268–292
- Making fiction out of fact: Attention and belief in the discourse of conspiracyJessica Mason | pp. 293–312
- Narrative warfare: The ‘careless’ reinterpretation of literary canon in online antifeminismMatias Nurminen | pp. 313–332
- “I can tell the difference between fiction and reality”: Cross-fictionality and Mind-style in political rhetoricSam Browse & Mari Hatavara | pp. 333–351
- The rhetoric of factuality in narrative: Appeals to authority in Claas Relotius’s feature journalismSamuli Björninen | pp. 352–370
- The paradox of imagining the post-human world: Fictional and factual rhetorical strategies in Alan Weisman’s The World Without UsMaria Laakso | pp. 371–390
- The “dissolving margins” of Elena Ferrante and the Neapolitan novels: A cognitive approach to fictionality, authorial intentionality, and autofictional reading strategiesAlison Gibbons | pp. 391–417
- Conspicuous fabrications: Speculative fiction as a tool for confronting the post-truth discourseElise Kraatila | pp. 418–433
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