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  1. Apr 5, 2016 · A term originally coined by Linda Hutcheon, in A Poetics of Postmodernism, historiographic metafiction includes those postmodern works, usually popular novels, which are "both intensely self-reflexive and paradoxically lay claim to historical events and personages".

  2. Jun 1, 2022 · Many scholars trace the origins of the historical novel, prior to its arrival in England, to seventeenth-century France through the publications of César de Saint-Réal’s Don Carlos (1672), his essay De l'usage de l'histoire (1671), as well as Madame de La Fayette’s La Princesse de Clèves (1678).

  3. Dec 24, 2010 · The term “historiographic metafiction” was coined by Linda Hutcheon in her essay “Beginning to Theorize the Postmodern” in 1987 and then further developed in her seminal study A Poetics of Postmodernism (1988) to describe “those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim ...

  4. From ancient civilizations to more recent events, historical fiction offers a unique way to experience and understand different time periods and cultures. In this article, we will explore the various aspects of historical fiction, including its definition, characteristics, and sub-genres.

  5. Nov 13, 2020 · Historical theory and criticism embraces not only the theory and practice of literary historiographical representation but also other types of criticism that, often without acknowledgment, presuppose a historical ground or adopt historical methods in an ad hoc fashion.

  6. 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.

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  8. Jul 2, 2020 · Following Defoe, whose fiction offered a journalistic facticity, and Richardson, who wrote transparent moral sermons, Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was the first to write avowed novels and depict ordinary English life and the panorama of his age.