Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Nove

This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Adopting a case study approach, it demonstrates the extent to which contexts of production and reception are important in framing generic expectations with respect to the representation of lived experience and in helping to determine the status of the narrator as (fictional) persona or (implied) author.

About the author

Fiona J. Doloughan is Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. She is the author of two previous monographs and numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles on aspects of contemporary narrative.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona J. Doloughan
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 09.09.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781839996375
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-637-5
• Pages: 184
• Series: Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000, Min Kamp (My Struggle); Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, oranges are not the only fruit