Wahre Geschichten, frei erfunden: Verhandlungen und Markierungen von Fiktion im Peritext

Roman Kuhn

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Wahre Geschichten, frei erfunden

Verhandlungen und Markierungen von Fiktion im Peritext

True Stories, Purely Imaginary: Signaling and Negotiating Fictionality in Peritexts

Roman Kuhn

Volume 15 in the series WeltLiteraturen / World Literatures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110578942

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This study examines how literary works use the peratext to signal and problematize their fictional or nonfictional status. Comparative analyses of examples mostly from the 18^th and 20^th centuries show that the peratext – whether of works billed as “true stories” or of those in which “any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental” – always negotiates acute problems in contemporary understandings of fiction.

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Roman Kuhn, Freie Universität Berlin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Vorbemerkungen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Inhalt Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
1. Einleitung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Paratext- und Fiktionstheorie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Titelei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
4. Vorworte und andere ›Liminarien‹ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
5. Disclaimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
6. Piktoriale Peritexte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
7. »The End« – »Fin« – »Ende« Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
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(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Literaturwissenschaftler, Germanisten, Anglisten, Romanisten
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
Keywords: Fictionality; theory of fiction; paratext

eBook

Published: February 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783110578942

Hardcover

Published: February 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783110576290