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Can the novel survive in an age when tales of historical figures and contemporary personalities dominate the reading lists of the book-buying public?Naomi Jacobs addresses this question in a study of writers such as William Styron, E. L. Doctorow, and Robert Coover, who challenge the dominance of nonfiction by populating their fictions with real people, living and dead. Jacobs explores the genesis, varieties, and implications of this trend in a prose as lively as that of the writers she critiques.Using as a case study Robert Coovers portrait of Richard Nixon in The Public Burning, Jacobs addresses the important legal and ethical questions raised by this trend and applies contemporary libel law to the fictionalization of living people, such as Richard Nixon. She closes her study by speculating on the future of this device and of the novel.
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The Character of Truth : Historical Figures in Contemporary Fiction Crosscurrents/modern Critiques. Third Series
author
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Jacobs, Naomi.
publisher
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Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0809316072
print isbn13
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9780809316076
ebook isbn13
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9780585187082
language
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English
subject
Fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Historical fiction--History and criticism, Characters and characteristics in literature, Literature and history.
publication date
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1990
lcc
:
PN3335.J27 1990eb
ddc
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809.3/044
subject
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Fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Historical fiction--History and criticism, Characters and characteristics in literature, Literature and history.
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Crosscurrents
Modern Critiques Third Series
Edited by Jerome Klinkowitz
In Form: Digressions on the Act of Fiction By Ronald Sukenick
Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism By Jerome Klinkowitz
Critical Angles: European Views of Contemporary American Literature Edited by Marc Chnetier
American Theater of the 1960s By Zoltn Szilassy
The Fiction of William Gass: The Consolation of Language By Arthur M. Saltzman
The Novel as Performance: The Fiction of Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman By Jerzy Kutnik
The Dramaturgy of Style: Voice in Short Fiction By Michael Stephens
Out of Egypt: Scenes and Arguments of an Autobiography By Ihab Hassan
The Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac: A Study of the Fiction By Regina Weinreich
Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow By Kathryn Hume
Who Says This? The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader By Welch D. Everman
History and the Contemporary Novel By David Cowart
The Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge By Robert A. Morace
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The Character of Truth
Historical Figures in Contemporary Fiction
Naomi Jacobs
Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Copyright 1990 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America Edited by Susan Thornton Designed by Design for Publishing, Inc. Production supervised by Linda Jorgensen-Buhman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jacobs, Naomi, 1953 The character of truth: historical figures in contemporary fiction / Naomi Jacobs. p. cm.(Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Historical fictionHistory and criticism. 3. Characters and characteristics in literature. 4. Literature and history. I. Title. II. Series. PN3335.J27 1990 809.3'044dc20 89-39329 ISBN 0-8093-1607-2 CIP
"The Photograph Becomes a Mirror: Coming Through Slaughter" in chapter 2 first appeared in Studies in Canadian Literature 11.1 (1986): 218. Reprinted with permission.
Portions of chapter 4 were first published in Science-Fiction Studies 14.2 (1987): 23040. Reprinted with permission.
"Kathy Acker's Plagiarized Self" in chapter 4 first appeared in Review of Contemporary Fiction fall 1989. Reprinted with permission.
Portions of chapter 5 were first published in Missouri Review 8.2 (1985): 164178. Reprinted with permission.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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for Alfred and Christabel Jacobs
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Contents
Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series Jerome Klinkowitz
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
1 Precedents
1
The Historical Figure in Renaissance and Elizabethan Fiction
2
The Historical Figure in the Seventeenth Century
6
The Historical Figure Under Realism
13
2 Raising the Dead: Fiction Biographies
24
William Styron and the Politics of Fiction Biography
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