TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shookman, Ellis
AB  - Using the nine novels of Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813) as case studies, Shookman explores the notion of fictionality both as a distinctive feature of the stories themselves and as a distinguishing characteristic of the fanciful notions, moral laws, political utopias, religious beliefs, and artistic concepts that they describe. The novels show readers why they should take fictions seriously, yet not literally—or how to suspend disbelief without suspending judgment. Shookman uses the concepts of imagination, ideals, and illusion to investigate how Wieland's novels define fiction, know its referents, and accept its truths. He places Wieland's use of fictionality in the evolution of the German novel, while also using his work to comment on academic and real world implications of fictionality.
DO  - 10.5149/9781469656502_Shookman
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200623_9781469656502_114
KW  - Poetry
KW  - German Studies
KW  - Literature
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/9fabe3e1-ad52-4f06-8c27-f38a6ca06d11/9781469656502_WEB.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39866
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
PP  - Chapel Hill
PY  - 1997
TI  - Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels : Aspects of Fictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland
ER  - 
