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

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   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.

   • Author: Bryony STOCKER

2. 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...

3. 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...

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   May 25, 2022 · This thesis investigates how effective works of fiction are, through their depictions 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,

5. www.academia.edu › 26055076 › Writing_Historical_Fiction(PDF) Writing Historical Fiction | Stephen Carver - Academia.edu

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   His summation very much encapsulates the concept and device of the Defamiliar in historical fiction: What matters in the historical novel is not the re-telling of great historical events, but the poetic awakening of the people who figured in these events.

   • Author: Stephen Carver

6. www.academia.edu › 82912559 › Historiography_as(PDF) Historiography as Fiction, Fiction as History: An ...

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   Fictional or imaginary history emerged at that time as a way to safeguard the literariness of history as a formal genre, using the rhetorical discourse of historiography to achieve an effect of historicity in texts that often had a satirical or cautionary intent.

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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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   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.

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   How do historical events influence a novel?

   • Since the novel is, by definition, not circumscribed by facts, the extent to which historical events influence plot becomes one means to study the politics of creativity. Novelistic representation, in the four novels selected for study, combines the principles of realism and postmodernism in its reconstruction of the past.

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   Which books are based on historical history?

   • The novels selected for study–The Name of the Rose (1980) and Baudolino (2000) by Eco, and My Name is Red (1998) and Snow (2002) by Pamuk–are each located in a historical past and capture moments of crisis in history.

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   Is a historical novel a realism or a postmodernism?

   • From the literary perspective, similarly, the historical novel’s focus has shifted from realism to a postmodernist flouting of realist norms, which has led to the questioning of absolute narratives, urging plurality of perspectives in fiction.

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   How does McHale define a postmodern historical novel?

   • McHale states that the postmodern historical novel is structured, intentionally, as either a supplement to history, or as a conscious divergence from it, with the result that such narratives subvert official historical records by flaunting plurality and non-absolutism.

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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?