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"This volume ranges widely over literary works of many centuries and diverse cultures. It discusses: why the topic has seemed so important to so many authors and readers; how the terms 'truth' and 'lies' have been diversely defined; how (if at all) literature can contribute...
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Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Critical insights
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| Summary: |
"This volume ranges widely over literary works of many centuries and diverse cultures. It discusses: why the topic has seemed so important to so many authors and readers; how the terms 'truth' and 'lies' have been diversely defined; how (if at all) literature can contribute to serious exploration of this important moral issue; and how and why the theme continues to remain so relevant. Some important thinkers have seen literature as a key means of apprehending and propagating truth; others (such as Plato) have associated literature itself with inveterate lying. This volume explores how creative writers have dealt with this controversy in different ways." -- |
| Carrier Form: | xxx, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781637003497 1637003498 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/T874 |
| Contents: |
About this volume / Truth and lies in literature : some examples from Shakespeare / Fact or fiction, truth or lies? : an introduction to "The Kentucky tragedy" / Secrecy in American literature and culture : an overview / Literature and knowledge / The play's the thing : masking in Hamlet and Mansfield Park / Truth and lies in life, literature, and literary theory / Men and women, truth and lies in two intriguing poems from the English Renaissance / Truth and lies in early modern literature / Lies, truth, and parable in Tolstoy's "The death of Ivan Ilych" / Marlow's "European mind" : subjective truth and the unreliable narrator in Lord Jim / "Truth" and "falsehood" in the paranormal thought of J.R.R. Tolkien / "Truth" and "lies" in the life and career of Zora Neale Hurston : new evidence from African American newspapers from 1925 to the early 1940s / "Truth" and "lies" in the life and career of Zora Neale Hurston : new evidence from African American newspapers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s / Multi-level truths and lies in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / "My offences against veracity" : truth, lies, and literature in Ian McEwan's Atonement / Additional works on truth and lies. |