Before Fiction Bert Gildart Dennis Hudson

Dennis Hudson

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When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha's order of monks

into a wholesale rejection of socio-sexual restraints and portended disaster for the American family

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Before Fiction Bert Gildart Dennis HudsonFiction has become nearly synonymous with literature itself, as if Homer and Dante and Pynchon were all engaged in the same basic activity. But one difficulty with this view is simply that a literature trafficking in openly invented characters is a quite recent development. Novelists before the nineteenth century ceaselessly asserted that their novels were true stories, and before that, poets routinely took their basic plots and heroes from the past.