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1. www.researchgate.net › publication › 322386239(PDF) Perspectives on the Relation between History and Fiction

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   Dec 1, 2017 · This paper will analyze the theoretical aspects of history, namely the scholarly concerns regarding the method of history and its reliability and objectiveness, as well as its relation to...

2. www.researchgate.net › publication › 366054506(PDF) Interpreting History Through Fiction - ResearchGate

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   Dec 6, 2022 · In ‘Interpreting History Through Fiction: Three Writers Discuss their Methods’, creative historical authors Thom Conroy, Joanna Grochowicz and Cristina Sanders engage in a conversation about ...

3. www.academia.edu › 64019315 › Historical_Fiction(PDF) Historical Fiction: Towards A Definition - Academia.edu

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   This paper explores the origins and theoretical response to the historical novel. It touches on the nineteenth century split between academic history and historical fiction, which promoted an artificial opposition between history and fiction, and

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4. www.cambridgescholars.com › resources › pdfsHistoricizing Fiction/ Fictionalizing History

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   history: does fictional representation simply represent history within an imaginative framework, or does it have the power to interrogate, critique and change (our knowledge of) reality?

5. lithub.com › historical-fiction-is-more-importantHistorical Fiction is More Important Than Ever: 10 Writers ...

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   Apr 24, 2017 · Fiction can make this much more personal and real than straight history. You can apply this to any subject—war, medicine, slavery, politics, sex—and there’s a historical novel to show you how it used to be, making our assessment of what’s happening now more knowledgeable.

6. culturahistorica.org › 05 › zhang-history-fictionalityHistory and Fictionality: Insights and Limitations of a ...

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   order: ‘History came to be set over against fiction, and especially the novel, as the representation of the ‘‘actual’’ to the representation of the ‘‘possible’’ or only ‘‘imaginable’’’ (White 1978, p. 123). But of course the historian uses the same kind of narrative techniques in writing history as the novelist does

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   Why should you read historical fiction?

   • Historical fiction has the power to make connections between the past and present in ways that facts and dates sometimes obscure. It brings people out of history and sets them beside you at the table—whispering, laughing, fearful. And it can lead its readers in pursuit of the historical record.

   Historical Fiction is More Important Than Ever: 10 Writers Weigh In

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   Why is a historical novel important?

   • Since its development in the eighteenth century, the historical novel has seen several transformations and has assimilated new techniques to raise crucial questions on literary theory and criticism, fact and fiction, identity, time, history, the reading and writing of ‘grand’ narratives and their relationship to subcultures.

   Historicizing Fiction/ Fictionalizing History

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   What is historical fiction based on?

   • Jenna Blum, Those Who Save Us (Harcourt, 2004) Historical fiction reflects the mistakes and triumphs of those who have come before us, showing how events affected people by personalizing them, making them resonant and emotional, in individual stories. Often, it’s a Greek chorus of warning—if only we’re paying attention.

   Historical Fiction is More Important Than Ever: 10 Writers Weigh In

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   What is a reader of historical fiction Looking for?

   • As a reader of historical fiction, I’m looking for something bigger than a simple reconstruction of history. I’m looking to experience a new world, to enter a new and de-familiarized version of the past.

   Historical Fiction is More Important Than Ever: 10 Writers Weigh In

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   What are the benefits of reading historical fiction with kids?

   • An unintended benefit of having read so much historical fiction with these kids is that this repository of stories has been the basis for some very insightful discussions about current events.

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   Are history and fiction linked?

   • The past is much too vast and claiming to be able to know it all is an utopia. This paper offers different definitions and perspectives on history with the purpose of proving that history and fiction are indubitably linked. In fact, novels are proposed as complementary sources for the ‘official’ versions of the past.

   Perspectives on the Relation between History and Fiction

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8. www.cambridgescholars.com › resources › pdfsHistory and Narration - Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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   Thus the relationship between history and narration has been tackled from different angles highlighting the rhetorical strategies that are at work in the writing. While history becomes a way to read literary texts, literature provides a way of looking at history, often voicing the authors’ disbelief in