TY - BOOK ID - 1087770 TI - Telling the truth: the theory and practice of documentary fiction PY - 1986 SN - 0801418771 1501722891 9781501722899 9780801418778 1501722905 1501722883 PB - Ithaca, N.Y. DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Comparative literature KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - 82-31 KW - American fiction KW - -Historical fiction, American KW - -Marxist criticism KW - Reportage literature, American KW - -Nonfiction novel KW - -Documentary story KW - Journalistic novel KW - New journalism KW - Novel, Nonfiction KW - Reportage literature KW - American reportage literature KW - American prose literature KW - Criticism, Marxist KW - Marxian criticism KW - Marxist literary criticism KW - Communism and literature KW - Communist aesthetics KW - Criticism KW - American historical fiction KW - American literature KW - Roman KW - History and criticism KW - Historical fiction, American KW - Marxist criticism. KW - Nonfiction novel KW - History and criticism. KW - -Roman KW - 82-31 Roman KW - -Criticism, Marxist KW - Documentary story KW - Marxist criticism KW - Literary theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1087770 AB - Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current Marxist critics. Foley maintains that Marxist theory has yet to produce a satisfactory theory of mimesis or of the development of genres, and she addresses such key issues as the problem of reference and the nature of generic distinctions. Among the authors whom Foley treats are Defoe, Scott, George Eliot, Joyce, Isherwood, Dos Passos, William Wells Brown, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines. ER -