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May 25, 2022 · of past worlds, in providing us with a resource for the study of the history of the period in which that fiction is set. It assesses past academic literature on the role of fiction in historical understanding, and on the processes involved in the writing, reading, adapting, and interpreting of fiction. It contends that the creation and
Dec 1, 2017 · 1. Introduction. Up until the 19 th century, history was a blend of fact and fiction, m yth and. reality, while the study of history was more an art t han a science. History generally. meant major ...
Bryony STOCKER. 2019. 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 discusses the lack of scholarly definitions of the genre.
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Dec 6, 2022 · Abstract. In ‘Interpreting History Through Fiction: Three Writers Discuss their Methods’, creative historical authors Thom Conroy, Joanna Grochowicz and Cristina Sanders engage in a ...
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
extent to which creative representation within fiction, by experimenting with techniques, becomes a political enterprise. As a result, the novels encourage questions on the nature of the relationship between fiction and history: does fictional representation simply represent history within an
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The distinction between history and fiction has long been a dis-puted and contentious one while also, paradoxically, appearing ‘commonsensical’. As Louis O. Mink suggests, ‘“everyone knows” … that history claims to be a true representation of the past while fic-tion does not, even when it purports to describe actions and events
