The Truth, the Partial Truth, and Anything but the Truth
Textual Constructions of Veracity in Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21791192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vera Nelleke Veldhuizen (0000-0003-4271-7088, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 140-154 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Research in Children s Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-6198 • E-ISSN: 1755-6201 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/ircl.2023.0504 |
| OpenAlex | W4377037388 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
This article analyses the narrative techniques employed by children's literature to construct the sense of ‘what really happened’, even in the face of conflicting narratives, from a cognitive narratological perspective. Focusing on metarepresentation and attachment theory, the paper proposes the concept of ‘truth narrative’ to refer to narratives which make a claim about story-world reality. The function and construction of truth narratives is explored through a close reading of Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Visual arts · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |