Facts and Fictions: Emotional Authenticity and Narrative in Natural History Exhibitions

This article explores the role of narrative in the generation of emotional authenticity, a feeling that something is real rather than the fact of its authenticity, arguing that the fictive (the structures of literature) can work to obscure the fictions (what is invented or untrue) at work in all mu...

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Main Author: Jordan Kistler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2025-05-01
Series:Museum & Society
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/mas/article/view/4723
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