The Ethics of Nonfiction: Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity

Jensen, George H.

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms – including the personal essay and memoir – and ethical questions that arise in relation to them, such as truth claims, the confessional mode, counter-narratives. Drawing on the ideas of Bakhtin, Nietzsche and Foucault; examples from creative non-fiction writers such as Strayed and Knausgaard; and the founding principles of the originators of the genre, Seneca, Augustine and Montaigne, George Jensen argues that a limited conception of nonfiction leads to a limited view of its ethics. Writing about the truth in an authentic way is more important than ever before – and essential to this is the creation of the ethical subject.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-10-24

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031391880

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39186-6

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 208