At the Brink of the Abyss: Incredibility and the Rhetoric of Truth-Telling in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts
This article argues that Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts (1977) is characterised by a deep and unresolved tension between the deployment of truth-telling rhetoric – textual appeals to readerly credulity customarily such as acknowledgements of the limits of authorial memory and the inclusion o...
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| Language: | English |
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Université Clermont Auvergne
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| Series: | Viatica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/2893 |