Telling the Truth by Barbara C. Foley PAPERBACK 9781501722882

Telling the Truth\nby Barbara C. Foley\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Barbara C. Foley\nTitle: Telling the Truth\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781501722882\nISBN-10: 1501722883\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nBarbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current Marxist critics. Foley maintains that Marxist theory has yet to produce a satisfactory theory .