{"product_id":"literature-and-philosophy-ilya-kliger-9780271050775","title":"The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eIts champions--and its detractors--have often understood the novel as the genre \u003ci\u003epar excellence\u003c\/i\u003e of truthlessness.\u003ci\u003e The Narrative Shape of Truth \u003c\/i\u003ecounters this widely accepted view. It argues instead that the novel has found new, historically specific configurations of truth and narrative. The nineteenth-century novel, in particular, can be understood as responding to the emerging tendency to view truth as inseparable from, rather than opposed to, time. Ilya Kliger offers a nonreductive way of reading the histories of philosophy and the novel side by side. He identifies the crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative when, at the end of the eighteenth century, a new structural affiliation between truth and time emerged. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines novels by four authors--Balzac, Stendhal, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy--as well as the writings of leading European intellectuals and philosophers. Kliger argues that the \"realist\" novel can be conceived as prompting us (and giving us the means) to think of truth differently, as immanent in a temporal shape rather than transcendent in a principle, a fact, or a higher order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ilya Kliger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271050772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271050775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Ilya Kliger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119500226815,"sku":"9780271050775","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_927635bb-1516-4a68-a713-d909353a6472.jpg?v=1687409669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literature-and-philosophy-ilya-kliger-9780271050775","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}