Realism in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Content v
3. Factual Narrative: An Introduction 1
4. I. Basic Issues: Factuality and Fictionality
5. Theories of Fictionality and Their Real Other 29
6. Factual Narration in Narratology 51
7. Fact, Fiction and Media 75
8. Factualities and their Dependence on Concepts of the Fictional and the Mendacious 95
9. Typology of the Nonfactual 111
10. Panfictionality/Panfictionalism 127
11. The Factual in Psychology 133
12. Is Factuality the Norm? A Perspective from Cognitive Narratology 149
13. Is Factuality in the Eye of the Beholder? 157
14. Metaphor, Allegory, Irony, Satire and Supposition in Factual and Fictional Narrative 165
15. II. Truth and Reference: Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches
16. The Philosophical Perspective on Truth 187
17. Facts and Realism in Philosophy 209
18. Truth in Literature: The Problem of Knowledge and Insight Gained from Fiction 229
19. Reference in Philosophy 245
20. Reference in Literature/Literary Studies 259
21. Reference in Linguistics 267
22. Evidentiality in Linguistics and Rhetoric 287
23. III. Factuality across Disciplines and Media
24. Factual Narratives and the Real in Therapy and Psychoanalysis 297
25. Authenticity in Sociology and Psychology 313
26. Factuality in Anthropology 325
27. Factuality in Historiography/Historical Study 335
28. Factual Narrative and Truth in Political Discourse 351
29. Narrative and Factuality in Sociology 367
30. Factual Narrative in Economics 379
31. Factuality, Evidence and Truth in Factual Narratives in the Law 391
32. Truth in (Christian) Religion and in Genres of Religious Narrative 401
33. The Narration of Scientific Facts 417
34. Narrative in Early Modern and Modern Science 429
35. Empiricism and the Factual 443
36. The Role of Factuality in Film 453
37. Facts and Factual Narration in Journalism 465
38. Factuality and Fictionality in Advertisements 479
39. IV. Literary Issues: Fact, Truth and the Real
40. From Mimesis to Realism: The Role of Factuality and the Real in the History of Narrative Theory and Practice 487
41. Realism in the Nineteenth-Century Novel 511
42. Authenticity in Narratology and in Literary Studies 521
43. Factuality and Convention 533
44. The Ethics of Factual Narrative 543
45. Transgressive Narration: The Case of Autofiction 555
46. Factual or Fictional? The Interpretive and Evaluative Impact of Framing Acts 565
47. Pseudofactual Narratives and Signposts of Factuality 577
48. Pseudofactuality 593
49. Factuality and Literariness 601
50. V. Factuality and Fictionality in Various Cultures and Historial Periods
51. The Factual in Antiquity 615
52. Diachrony: The Factual in the Middle Ages 625
53. Factual Narrative in the Early Modern Period 635
54. Factual Narrative in Pre-Modern China: Historiography – Its Nature, Function and Influence on Narrative Fiction 647
55. Premodern Japanese Narratives and the Problem of Referentiality and Factuality 663
56. Reality and Factuality of Classical Indian Narratives 677
57. Narrative in Classical Persian Literature 695
58. Factual Narrative in Medieval Arabic Literature 709
59. Factual and Fictional Narratives in East African Literatures 721
60. Contributors 735
61. Name Index 755
62. Subject Index 764