Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Writing Facts 9
4. THEORY AND HISTORY
5. Facts in Modernity 29
6. Writing as a Cultural Way of Fact-Making 53
7. Facts 85
8. WRITING SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND LAW
9. Writing Social Facts 93
10. Writing ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ into ‘Fact’ 107
11. Manufacturing Legal Facts 125
12. LITERATURE AND ARTS
13. Towards a Poetics of Fact 143
14. ‘Writing Facts’ and 19^th-Century English Realist Fiction 163
15. A ‘Real’ Novel? 191
16. Rewriting Gender? 205
17. The Loss of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene and Its Representations in Literature and the Arts (Late 20^th and Early 21^st Century) 221
18. “One + One is one two. Two is one two” 239
19. MEDIA AND WRITING PRACTICE
20. An Iterative Poetics of Writing Facts 255
21. Snapshot and Wage Table 273
22. (Body) Positivity in Social Media 291
23. ‘Patchwriting’ as Unintentional Fact Writing 311