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Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel focuses on contemporary American documentary narratives, specifically the documentary novel, as it re-emerged in the 1960s and later developed into various other forms. The book explores the connections between the documentary novel and the concurrent rise of the New Journalism (a.ka. "literary journalism") in the United States, situating the two genres in the cultural context of the tumultuous 1960s and an emer...

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While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. The Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood here reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels-the mahogany furniture in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, the calico curtains in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and "Negro head" tobacco in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations-Freedgood argues that these things are connected to histories that the novels barely acknowledge, generating darker meanings outside the novels' symbolic systems. A valuable contribution to the new field of object studies in the humanities, The Ideas in Things pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish.

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Although we usually think of the intellectual legacy of twentieth-century Vienna as synonymous with Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theories, other prominent writers from Vienna were also radically reconceiving sexuality and gender. In this probing new study, David Luft recovers the work of three such writers: Otto Weininger, Robert Musil, and Heimito von Doderer. His account emphasizes the distinctive intellectual world of liberal Vienna, especially the impact of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in this highly scientific intellectual world. According to Luft, Otto Weininger viewed human beings as bisexual and applied this theme to issues of creativity and morality. Robert Musil developed a creative ethics that was closely related to his open, flexible view of sexuality and gender. And Heimito von Doderer portrayed his own sexual obsessions as a way of understanding the power of total ideologies, including his own attraction to National Socialism. For Luft, the significance of these three writers lies in their understandings of eros and inwardness and in the roles that both play in ethical experience and the formation of meaningful relations to the world-a process that continues to engage artists, writers, and thinkers today. Eros and Inwardness in Vienna will profoundly reshape our understanding of Vienna's intellectual history. It will be important for anyone interested in Austrian or German history, literature, or philosophy.

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Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984. In Cold Blood --- Documentaire roman --- Hersey, John Richard, 1914 . Hiroshima --- Lewis, Oscar, 1914-1970. La Vida --- Nonfiction novel --- Roman documentaire --- Reportage literature, American --- American prose literature --- Littérature de reportage américaine --- Prose américaine --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Journalism --- Influence --- Technique --- History --- -Fiction --- -Journalism --- -Reportage literature, American --- -World War, 1939-1945 --- -Nonfiction novel --- -Documentary story --- Journalistic novel --- New journalism --- Novel, Nonfiction --- Reportage literature --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- American reportage literature --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- -History and criticism --- Philosophy --- History and criticism. --- Technique. --- Influence. --- Littérature de reportage américaine --- Prose américaine --- Documentary story --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- 20th century --- Mailer, Norman --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Wolfe, Tom --- Warhol, Andy --- World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Influence --- Nonfiction novel - History and criticism --- Reportage literature, American - History and criticism --- American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Fiction - Technique --- Journalism - United States - History - 20th century