Narralogues: Truth in Fiction

These "narralogues" combine story and argument, moving from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, and ultimately making the case that fiction is a medium for telling the truth.
In Narralogues, Ronald Sukenick continues his important and original contributions to the cutting edge of contemporary fiction. Here he proposes fiction as a medium for telling the truth, while recognizing that the implicit contradiction in these terms is more than cheap paradox. The "narralogues," simultaneously narrative and argument, story and rhetorical pleading, exemplify and argue for fiction as persuasion in a sequence that moves from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, using throughout all the traditional techniques of fiction, from comedy and irony to suspense and the erotic.

About the author

One of the founders of the Fiction Collective, Ronald Sukenick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including his most recent novel, Mosaic Man.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Sukenick
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780791443996
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4399-6
• No. of pages: 142
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Suny Series, the Margins of Li; Suny Series, the Margins of Li
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies