1. True, False, or Just Another Story: Does it Matter?
... past, something by which individuals, ethnicities and nations define themselves. Borges comments on the uselessness of attempting to determine that something is either true of false, when confronting it through writing. Therefore, the moment an act is recorded, it becomes an entity of its own: neither fact nor fiction. In "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" and " ... the beginning of the nineteenth century" (72). This comment shows that even Ryan's version of Kilpatrick's fall is subject to the same skeptical scrutiny as any historical account. The list of storytellers within the historic...
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