Narrative and truth
Subtitle: an ethical and dynamic paradigm for the humanities
By: Barry Emslie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781137275448
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Humanities; Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An overview; title: Marxist humanism: (Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Eagleton, Habermas); title: Women and writing: (women theorists, women novelists, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë); title: Freud: (science as narrative, a perverse and singular teleology, certainty masquerading as doubt); title: Philosophy and fatherland: (German transcendentalism, aesthetics, and nationalism); title: Realism: (Brecht, sport, the Bible, Lenin, conspiracy theories); title: Death.