... simultaneously knows to be not quite true or not quite one's own. In addition, it argues that in promoting this experience, Wilde is explicitly critiquing a model of belief popularized by Cardinal Newman in his 1870 An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent . There, Newman claims that one knows when one's beliefs...

..., and coincidental indeterminacies as part of a fascination with unorthodox causal structures and the breakup of secular time. Today these contingent textual incidents seem to foreshadow a wider set of uncertainties regarding the true scope of historical narrative: the place of the event in cultural analysis...

... and Incredibly Close (set in New York City after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001), it examines the dictate that fiction about historical violence must perforce be true to the facts. This dictate aligns fidelity with ethics and sets as its stakes the dismaying implications of blurring the distinction...

... the confusion that spreads from this contradiction. Being doomed to a state of eternal puberty, the novelistic hero cannot go out into the world and take his place in the history of civilization/culture ( Bildung ). This is especially true for the female Bildungsheld , who finds it even harder to find a spot...

... intangibility. Still, the true miracle in the novel is the reformation caused by the girl's superfluous writing. By thus staging a fable of domestication through verbal manners, Pamela contributes, decisively but problematically, to the consolidation of domestic fiction. Both the residual omnipresence...

... with reading the child is tied to the child as reader; childlike reading in James uses style as an entry point through which to join in with lies, to repair them by making them performatively true. The author suggests that by analyzing texts that challenge the “supreme simplicity” of childhood and expose...

...Ayelet Ben-Yishai Presumptions—legal rules that assume a fact is true unless there is a greater weight of evidence that disproves it—mark the normal mode of things, the way things could be and most probably are. Like realist fiction, presumptions are but one of the ways in which Victorian culture...

... is actually the spirit of (all true) literature and art, irrespective of its origin in any specific literary period. Put differently, when James explains that “to be irreverent … means to unsettle many of the premises that modernists held dear in the early twentieth century, though precisely in order...

... Jones). Yet classical comedies, Greek satires, and picaresque stories too had dealt with such characters before: “realism of daily life,” as Erich Auerbach had it, was etched already in Odysseus's scar ( 22 ). The true novelty of the novel—Watt's much-anthologized “formal realism”—was then not the what...

... or confused beyond re- demption in a world whlere the Order to which she had adhered with all the force of what we-but never the characters who inhabit the novels themselves-have been trained to call Ideology (they, and they are hardly alone, would rather call it being true to your school, true...

... activity. So at the beginning there was a strug- gle between the people who were satisfied with this new university and those who wanted to take it as a kind of basis for militant action. What was true, though, was that this institution was quite different from the usual thing in the French academic...

..., suggests that in writing his ser- mons he is “Trying to say what was true” (19), and in this spot at least I think we could say that the narrator and author both conceive of writing—sermons or novels—as forms of truth telling, or at least trying to get at the true, even given the mystery...

... long zancas (shanks) and the story/history uses both names (“que con estos dos sobrenombres le llama algunas veces la historia “There were a few other details to be noted, but they are all of small importance and make no difference to the true narrative of the story/history, since no story...

... they come apart. Autobiography is limited by episodic memory, by the distorting demands of linear temporality and causal explanation, and especially by human finitude. The true self, the soul, lies beyond the limitations of biologic life, successive temporality, and individual memory, so it cannot...

..., existence of morality” (30). In theory, narrative realism might lead us to any conclusions. This openness to different moral outcomes certainly seems to me to be true of one of the formal strategies Rosenthal singles out for attention: suspense. For example, while many critics have argued that the suspense...

... possession of those who remain. Such a narrative arc suggests more than a slight corrective to the notoriously conservative nature of the gothic, for while it is true that Otranto is driven by a desire for restoration and order, it can only achieve these reparations under the sign of melancholia...

... Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny, and Literature . Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002 . Yeazell , Ruth Bernard . “More True Than Real: Jane Eyre's ‘Mysterious Summons.’ ” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 29 ( 1974 ): 127 -43. Supernatural Realism Srdjan Smajic...

..., relativity-is the best and perhaps the only check against intolerance and violence toward those whose beliefs differ from one's own. Without relativism's defense of "the plurality of potentially true theories," the advocates of "objective truth" would insti- tute a dictatorship of both thought...

...Christopher Holmes BERLATSKY ERIC , The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation ( Columbus : Ohio State UP , 2011 ), pp. 250 , cloth, $49.95 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Work Cited Lyotard...

... referent's state of being-at best, pleasantly ornamental; at 7ilorst, a blurring or obfi~scationof the true. Thus, typology is antithetical not to experience per se but to those aspects of experience that do not corrfirln it. (68) True remembrance for the Puritans thus demanded...