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True stories & other essays / / Francis Spufford



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Autore: Spufford Francis <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: True stories & other essays / / Francis Spufford Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven ; ; London : , : Yale University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 808.84
Soggetto topico: Essays
Classificazione: LCO010000
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: 'TRUE STORIES' -- Cold -- Red -- Sacred -- Technical -- Printed -- Sources and Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination? Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis, and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on.
Altri titoli varianti: True stories and other essays
Titolo autorizzato: True stories & other essays  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-23160-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910812812503321
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