FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana. Fictionally authentic and authentically fictional: Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. In International Conference on Narrative. 2016.
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Original name Fictionally authentic and authentically fictional: Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Authors FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana.
Edition International Conference on Narrative, 2016.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech) autofikce; Dave Eggers; Lauren Slater; fikčnost; narativ
Keywords in English autofiction; Dave Eggers; Lauren Slater; fictionality; narrative
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Jan Tlustý, Ph.D., učo 20440. Changed: 24/2/2017 11:21.
Abstract
The paper discusses the ways in which AHWOSG challenges the conventions of autobiographical genres. It relates the book to the rhetorical approach to fictionality by Richard Walsh, James Phelan, and Henrik Skov Nielsen, who regard fictionality as a communicative strategy and a means of engaging with the actual world. AHWOSG employs fictionality not to deceive its readers or evade facts but to achieve a greater degree of authenticity and communicate its message more efficiently.
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