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""The Story of Fictional Truth powerfully establishes new bases of connection between narratology and novel studies. Dawson's deep theoretical expertise confirms his position as a leading figure in both fields. Challenging the impulse to ascribe absolute representational effects to narrative modes, Dawson gives us an important new literary history of the novel."" --Dorothy Hale, author of The Novel and the New Ethics ""[The Story of Fictional Truth] offers an exhilarating new perspective from which to examine novels both frequently and less frequently discussed....I found in the book an incredible wealth of fascinating questions and arguments."" --Katarzyna Bartoszynska, Eighteenth-Century Studies ""Dawson's book connects isolated dots, covers untrodden ground, questions received views, and opens up new discussions. It is a field-changer and a must-read for literary and narrative scholars working on history of the novel, novelistic techniques, fictionality, and other related topics."" --Mengchen Lang, Journal of Literary Semantics ""This is a well-researched, highly ambitious, scholarly monograph whose strength lies both in its ability to range from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in telling the story of fictional truth as well as in bringing together perspectives from literary history and narrative theory. ... [it] will surely elicit debate and be a key reference in the fields of Novel Studies, Fictionality Studies and Narrative Studies."" --Fiona J. Doloughan, Anglia

""Dawson's book connects isolated dots, covers untrodden ground, questions received views, and opens up new discussions. It is a field-changer and a must-read for literary and narrative scholars working on history of the novel, novelistic techniques, ficti ""This is a well-researched, highly ambitious, scholarly monograph whose strength lies both in its ability to range from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in telling the story of fictional truth as well as in bringing together perspectives from li ""The Story of Fictional Truth powerfully establishes new bases of connection between narratology and novel studies. Dawson's deep theoretical expertise confirms his position as a leading figure in both fields. Challenging the impulse to ascribe abs ""[The Story of Fictional Truth] offers an exhilarating new perspective from which to examine novels both frequently and less frequently discussed....I found in the book an incredible wealth of fascinating questions and arguments."" --Katarzyna Bartos

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Paul Dawson is Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of three books, including The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction.

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