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However, the notion that metafictive play is the twentieth century's cheeky challenge to the hegemony of the realist novel is complicated by numerous examples of metafictional experimentation before the advent of “realist imperialism.”.
The earliest known use of the adjective obtrusive is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for obtrusive is from 1652, in the writing of Thomas Urquhart, author and translator.
- Background
- Analysis
- Public and Private (Hi)Stories
- Curating The Past
- Closure and Meaning in Historiographic Metafiction
- Implications For Practice
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
History and Narrative History has traditionally been distinguished from fictionby its content rather than its form, as it is seenas true and factual, while fiction is perceived as theopposite. Hayden White (1984) , however, drawssimilarities between historiography and narrativeprocesses to argue that both history and fiction occupythe sphere of nar...
A key element of historiographic metafictions is thatnarrators are often aware of their role in constructinga history: they engage with historical researchand evidence gathering, as well as the selection ofsource material and the positioning of that materialto produce their desired version of history. Throughnarrators revealing and reflecting on th...
Into White Silence (Eaton, 2008) is a novel about explorationsboth external (of the Antarctic) and internal(of the self) as readers travel toward the South Polewith a present-day narrator and an historical subject. Into White Silence is narrated in the present day byAnthony Eaton who discovers a journal previouslyowned by Lieutenant William Downes,...
Source Material and the Authoritative Researcher The traditional historical novel most often reflects historyas a “group of facts, which exists extratextually and which can be representedas it ‘really was’ (Nünning, 2004, p. 362) ,whereas a historiographic metafictive novel foregroundsthe construction of those seeming facts andthe presentation and ...
Meaning in and of historical events and persons isnot inherent in the past. It is imposed by historians,researchers, and chroniclers through strategies—suchas ordering events and identifying cause and effect—that attempt to explain and interpret the past for thosewho did not experience it. As Perry Nodelman (1990) suggests, history is “an art of co...
Narrative Constructions of the Past Schwebel (2011) suggests that “a central strengthof historical fiction as curriculum is that it allowsadolescents to scrutinize historical narrative as a construction” (p. 138) . Historiographic metafictions areparticularly useful for this purpose, as a central aim ofthe genre is to draw attention to the narrativ...
Allan (2012) notes that historiographic metafictions“self-consciously remind readers that, while eventsdid occur in the [. . .] past, these events are namedand constituted as historical facts through processesof selection [. . .] and thus need to be subjected toscrutiny” (p. 97) . Historiographic metafiction introducesreaders to the selective natur...
I would like to thank Dr. Erica Hateley for her mentorshipand invaluable feedback on this article, as well asDr. Cherie Allan and Professor Kerry Mallan for theircontinuous support. Amy Cross is currently a Research Support Officer for theChildren and Youth Research Centre, Queensland Universityof Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She has workedon a...
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"This full-fledged first novel points, first, to the author's obvious understanding of the need for fluid, rather than obtrusive, use of history in fiction. It points, second, to the adjustments in social attitudes that European immigrants made when settling in America and settling into less-formal American customs.
Sep 5, 2024 · In the past, people first swore by their gods. They made oaths, promises to achieve deeds that they asked their Deities to witness and approve or aid them in their endeavors to fulfil them. It was the solemnity of the religious element that originally brought censure to swearing.
Jun 1, 2022 · Ever wonder the history of historical fiction? We have! In this guest blog post, Bex Roden examines how historical fiction became a genre by looking at some classic texts that helped influence the authors and novels we love today.
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Two slightly later classic historical fiction books are Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859). These works established the basic framework for historical fiction, where the historical setting plays a crucial role in shaping the narrative.
