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  1. Writing History as a Prophet
    Postmodernist Innovations of the Historical Novel
    Erschienen: 1991
    Verlag:  John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 1283424487; 9027277605; 9781283424486; 9789027277602
    Schlagworte: Literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Historical fiction; Literatur; Historical fiction; Englisch; Historischer Roman; Literaturkritik; Prophetie; Postmoderne
    Umfang: 1 online resource (228 pages)
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    WRITING HISTORY AS A PROPHET; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; I. Postmodernism and History; A Revival of Historical Fiction; The Corpus of Postmodernist Historical Fiction; The Delineation of Postmodernism; Postmodernism and Deconstruction; Linda Hutcheon's Poetics of Postmodernism; The Postmodern and the Utopian; Notes; II. Some Theoretical Deliberations About Genre; Genre as a Social Institution; Notes; III. The Classical Model of Historical Fiction; The Emergence of the Historical Novel; The Framing of the Waverley Novels

    The Didactic Function of the Historical NovelImitation and Emulation; The Demise of Scott; Notes; IV. Modernist Experiments With the Historical Novel; A Twentieth-Century Perspective on Scott's Shallowness; Historicism Criticized; Historical Fiction and the Questioning of Objective Historical Knowledge; Modernist Innovations of the Historical Novel; The Subjectivization of History; The Transcendence of History; Sef-Reflexivity; Historical Fiction and the Detective Novel; Notes; V. Fiction Historical and Scientific; Science Fiction and the Utopian Mode

    Utopian Historical Fiction and Nostalgic Science FictionTime-Travelling; Uchronian Fiction; The Parodic Nature of Counterfactual Conjecture; The Political Implications of Uchronian Fiction; Modernist Self-Reflexivity Versus Postmodernist Counterfactual Parody; Notes; VI. Self-Reflexivity in Postmodernist Historical Fiction; The Conventionalization of Self-Reflexivity; Historiography in the Making; The Partiality of Historical Knowledge; The Unreliability of the Sources; Selectivity; Narrativity; Enclaves of Authenticity; History in the Making; Esthetic History; Political History

    Toward Counterfactual ConjectureNotes; VII. Alternate Histories; Eclecticism; Negational Counterfactual Conjecture; Uchronian Fantasies; History Turned Upside Down; Counterfactual Shifts; Closure; Parody; Coda: "Gravity's Rainbow; Notes; Conclusion; References; INDEX.

    This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre. Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulk

  2. Writing History as a Prophet
    Postmodernist Innovations of the Historical Novel
    Erschienen: 1991
    Verlag:  John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam

    This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past.Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th... mehr

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    This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past.Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre.Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulk

     

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    ISBN: 9789027277602; 9027277605; 1283424487; 9781283424486
    Schriftenreihe: Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; v. 26
    Schlagworte: Historical fiction; Historical fiction; Literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; Historical fiction; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  3. Writing History as a Prophet
    Postmodernist Innovations of the Historical Novel
    Erschienen: 1991
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    This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th... mehr

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    This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre. Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulk.

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789027277602; 9027277605; 1283424487; 9781283424486
    Schriftenreihe: Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; v. 26
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index