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fiction: see novel novel, in modern literary usage, a sustained work of prose fiction a volume or more in length. It is distinguished from the short story and the fictional sketch, which are necessarily brief. ..... Click the link for more information. ; short story short story, brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's ..... Click the link for more information. . fiction 1. literary works invented by the imagination, such as novels or short stories 2. Law something assumed to be true for the sake of convenience, though probably false |
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Warhol also notes that engaging narrators will avoid "reminders of the characters' fictionality, insisting instead that the characters are 'real'" (39). The "novel" is a questionable genre to depict national "unity" if it is seen as essentially self-critical, and the self-conscious fictionality Hampton finds in certain texts hardly "resolves" tensions, as he claims, as it is inherently unstable and raises questions for the identity of its self and of the nation it supposedly reflects. In other words, one thing Harrison's work makes inescapable is the fact of how art materially instantiates the reality or fictionality of the discourses it provokes. |
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