Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Art of Fiction

0/5 ( ratings)

An investigation, performed through storytelling, of the constructed beliefs of society and individuals

In this his eighth collection of poetry , Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes, often through personae, a near future, tracing there the political gambit of Fake News and the role of the imagination in our self-understanding . Via both satire and direct address , Prufer aims to understand the ugly-casual atmosphere of our often racialized, pervasive distrust. The Art of Fiction fundamentally understands that fictions are deployed to divide us, and they work: they get under our skin. Prufer powerfully explores the roles of imagination and art in how we explain ourselves to ourselves.

Pages: 132

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Four Way Books

Release: February 15, 2021

ISBN: 1945588721

ISBN 13: 9781945588723

The Art of Fiction

0/5 ( ratings)

An investigation, performed through storytelling, of the constructed beliefs of society and individuals

In this his eighth collection of poetry , Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes, often through personae, a near future, tracing there the political gambit of Fake News and the role of the imagination in our self-understanding . Via both satire and direct address , Prufer aims to understand the ugly-casual atmosphere of our often racialized, pervasive distrust. The Art of Fiction fundamentally understands that fictions are deployed to divide us, and they work: they get under our skin. Prufer powerfully explores the roles of imagination and art in how we explain ourselves to ourselves.

Pages: 132

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Four Way Books

Release: February 15, 2021

ISBN: 1945588721

ISBN 13: 9781945588723

More books from Kevin Prufer

National Anthem

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century

3.8/5 ( ratings)

New European Poets

4.1/5 ( ratings)

In a Beautiful Country

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The New Young American Poets: An Anthology

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Fallen from a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

How He Loved Them

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Strange Wood: Poems

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Dunstan Thompson: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master

4.5/5 ( ratings)

World’d Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Catherine Breese Davis: On the Life and Work of an American Master

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master

3.8/5 ( ratings)

New Ohio Review Issue #17: Uses and Abuses of Dialogue (Spring Book 2015)

Churches

Until Everthing Is Continuous Again

Boulevard No. 94

The Finger Bone (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)

Writing the Self-Elegy: The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink

The Finger Bone

Rate this book!

Write a review?