Narralogues: Truth in Fiction

by Sukenick, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780791444009
• ISBN10: 0791444007
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

In Narralogues, Ronald Sukenick continues his important and original contributions to the cutting edge of contemporary fiction. Here he proposes fiction as a medium for telling the truth, while recognizing that the implicit contradiction in these terms is more than cheap paradox. The "narralogues", simultaneously narrative and argument, story and rhetorical pleading, exemplify and argue for fiction as persuasion in a sequence that moves from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, using throughout all the traditional techniques of fiction, from comedy and irony to suspense and the erotic.

Author Biography

Ronald Sukenick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(9)
Gorgeous	9	(6)
Chat	15	(12)
A la Bastille	27	(8)
Art Brute	35	(14)
Dick and Eddie	49	(12)
Narralogue on Everything	61	(40)
What's Watts	101	(4)
Divide	105	(8)
Death on the Supply Side	113	(8)
Name of the Dog	121