Author Description

Toward a poetics and pragmatics of literary nonfiction -- Mailer's narrative poetics: from fiction to nonfiction -- The filtered vision: author, narrator, and character in The armies of the night -- The 'failure' of art: problems of verbal and visual representation in Of a fire on the moon -- The whiteness of the world: language and meaning in The executioner's song -- History as mystery: the rhetoric of nonfiction in Oswald's tale.