The Treacherous Imagination: Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction

by Robert Mcgill

Book Overview

Many authors have been accused of betraying their loved ones by turning them into fictional characters. In The Treacherous Imagination, Robert McGill examines the ethics of writing such stories. He argues that while fiction has long appealed to readers with its narratives of private life, contemporary autobiographical fiction channels a widespread ambivalence about the value of telling all in a confessional age--an age in which fiction has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814254136
• ISBN13: 9780814254134
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"