The Narrative Shape of Truth - Veridiction in Modern European Literature

Its champions as well as detractors have often understood the novel as the genre par excellence of truthlessness. The Narrative Shape of Truth offers a revision of this widely accepted understanding of the novel. It instead argues that the novel has found new historically specific configurations of truth and narrative, and that 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 where, at the end of the eighteenth century, a new structural affiliation between truth and time emerged.

About the author

Ilya Kliger is Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University.

Summary

Draws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of conjugating the histories of philosophy and the novel.

Product details

• Authors: Ilya Kliger, Ilya (Assistant Professor Kliger, Kliger Ilya
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2011
• EAN: 9780271037981
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03798-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Literature and Philosophy; Literature & Philosophy (Hardc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literature: history & criticism, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet