New Book Announcement: If the Truth Be Told: Accounts in Literary Forms

New Book Announcement: If the Truth Be Told: Accounts in Literary Forms
by Ronald J. Pelias, Sense Publishers, 2016

If the Truth Be Told: Accounts in Literary Forms plays with the sense of
truth. It's composed of six chapters, "Relational Logics," "Childhood
and Adolescent Dangers," "Jesus Chronicles," "Criminal Tales," "Aging,
Illness, and Death Lessons," and "Telling Truths." Each chapter includes
fictional and nonfictional accounts, including poems, stories,
monologues, short dramas, essays, creative nonfiction, and mixed genres,
to address each chapter's subject. Pieces are based on the author's
personal experiences, newspapers accounts, and purely fictional accounts
(all revealed in an appendix at the end of the book). Moving through the
book from beginning to end, readers may or may not know whether they are
reading a nonfictional or fictional text. Pelias intentionally subverts
assumptions readers may have in reading the different pieces in order to
blur the boundaries of what counts as evidence, what might be accepted
as truth, what might be of use in everyday lives. In this vein, Pelias
invites readers to consider what they value and why. As an engaging
compilation of literary works, this book can be read by anyone simply
for pleasure. If Truth Be Told can also be used in any number of college
courses in communication, creative writing, cultural studies, ethics,
narrative inquiry, philosophy, psychology, sociology and qualitative
inquiry. The book includes an extensive appendix with general and
chapter-by-chapter discussion questions.

Sense Publishers:
https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/social-fictions-seri
es/if-the-truth-be-told/