Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels: Aspects of Fictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland From: German Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Gelus, Marjorie | Copyright American Association of Teachers of German, Inc. Spring 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Shookman, Ellis Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels: Aspects of Fictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 237 pp. $39.95 hardcover.

Expanding on a Yale dissertation, Ellis Shookman here examines Wieland's nine novels as metafictions that reveal his evolving ideas about fictionality. No previous studies, says Shookman, have "shown [fictionality's] significance as a thread that runs through" all the novels (190)...

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