Ethics of Nonfiction

Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity

AvGeorge H. Jensen

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms – including the personal essay and memoir – and ethical questions that arise in relation to them, such as truth claims, the confessional mode, counter-narratives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-24
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:296 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031391880

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Mer om författaren

George H. Jensen is Professor Emeritus with the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA. His recent books include Some of the Words Are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family (2000), Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis (2000), and Identities Across Texts (2002).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Making Truth Claims.- Chapter 3: Critiquing Habit, Habitus, and Modernity.- Chapter 4: Fighting Narration.- Chapter 5: Shifting Roles, Mimesis, Sustaining Community.- Chapter 6: Critiquing and Claiming Memory.- Chapter 7: Making Confessions.- Chapter 8: Reflecting on Self as Other.- Chapter 9: Situating Scenes.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.