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'The cage of my moment': a conversation with Emma Donoghue about history and fiction

'The cage of my moment': a conversation with Emma Donoghue about history and fiction

... historical fiction novel, Slammerkin, I had a feeling that I could write about anything, and I feel I’ve really broadened out from ...with history and with research as a process that doing a PhD over many ...

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History in finance and fiction in history

History in finance and fiction in history

... between history and fiction from ...of history becomes the writ- ing of economic ...economic history itself: the so-called cliometric ...scholars, history was an objective science, and ...

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DISCUSSING THE TIME OF HISTORY THROUGH THE HISTORICAL FICTION “THE SECRET RIVER”

DISCUSSING THE TIME OF HISTORY THROUGH THE HISTORICAL FICTION “THE SECRET RIVER”

... historical fiction that is an unseemly genre yet rather the figure of speech of ...the history wars banter, Pinot urges students of history to observe that historical fiction is about ...

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‘Thrilling Empire’: Indian History and Questions of Genre in Victorian Popular Fiction

‘Thrilling Empire’: Indian History and Questions of Genre in Victorian Popular Fiction

... in fiction. In her article "T he Indian Mutiny in Fiction?”, published in Blackwood’s Magazine, in February 1897, Gregg provides the analysis of a certain number of novels dealing with the rebellion, ...

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History/ Fiction: An Intertextual reading of E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime

History/ Fiction: An Intertextual reading of E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime

... Combining narrative forms in his innovative confrontations with the political past as personal as well as public legacy, Doctorow, along with a host of other writers committed to traditions of American realism, uncovered ...

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Practical Aspects of Writing History & Historical Fiction

Practical Aspects of Writing History & Historical Fiction

... Practical Aspects of Writing History & Historical Fiction.. This PowerPoint presentation was part of a.[r] ...

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Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market

Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market

... of history, adventure and romance], foregrounding the word ...historical fiction for men which, as de Groot explains, “tends to be more based in adventure and concerned in the main with warfare” [22: ...

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A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s

A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s

... science fiction, including work by Thomas ...Science Fiction (1985) was a historical and thematic survey with a specifically American focus, situating early American SF within the context of the impact of ...

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Canadian Fiction Meets History and Historiography: Jacques Poulin, Daphne Marlatt, and Wayson Choy

Canadian Fiction Meets History and Historiography: Jacques Poulin, Daphne Marlatt, and Wayson Choy

... It is perhaps significant that the three novels usually studied at the beginning of any chronological survey course of Canadian literature are all historical novels: Philippe Aubert de G[r] ...

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Revealing Guernsey's ancient history in fact and fiction

Revealing Guernsey's ancient history in fact and fiction

... All over Europe, especially western Europe, can be found the remains of what we now call ‘Neolithic’, or New Stone Age, culture, a period that in European history stretched from (roughly) 7000 BC to (roughly) 2000 ...

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The 'Wandering Jew': history, fiction and adaptation

The 'Wandering Jew': history, fiction and adaptation

... The paper discusses the figure of the ‘Wandering Jew’ in the practice of adaptation – from page to screen – and uncovers a stereotype that finds expression in both fictional texts and[r] ...

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Inventing India : a history of India in fiction

Inventing India : a history of India in fiction

... Michael Harris suggests that: 'Although many Indian and British novelists have written about India, Rushdie's novel represents a literary landmark in that he has created something distin[r] ...

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At Home in Hollywood: Hope of Heaven as Cultural History, Autobiography, and Fiction

At Home in Hollywood: Hope of Heaven as Cultural History, Autobiography, and Fiction

... of detective: trying to make sense of Henderson's version of Miller's story, Malloy suggests to Peggy, "Well, let's us be detectives" (128).. And Malloy plays a convincing detect[r] ...

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"Shuttles in the rocking loom of history": dislocation in Toni Morrison's fiction

"Shuttles in the rocking loom of history": dislocation in Toni Morrison's fiction

... B., The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1961 DuCille, Ann, 'Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Difference', Diffe[r] ...

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Science Fiction

Science Fiction

... SF’s history also draws much-needed critical attention to the special place of fandom and the ways in which intense interactions between writers and fans have shaped the genre since its ...the history of ...

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Art as Fiction A Study of Poetry as Romantic Fiction

Art as Fiction A Study of Poetry as Romantic Fiction

... than history, because history deals with specific facts that have happened, and which are contingent, whereas literature, although sometimes based on history, deals with events that could have taken ...

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Story and the outdoors, fiction or non-fiction?

Story and the outdoors, fiction or non-fiction?

... the history of our culture; ownership, dispossession, mass trespass, despoliation, restoration, flight and fight, death and life, people lost and found, freedom and ...

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Fiction/non fiction, or: Myth and the architect's architecture

Fiction/non fiction, or: Myth and the architect's architecture

... Numerous examples suggest Rem Koolhaas is aware of the myth of Architectural authorship. It is ironic that one of the most well-known contemporary architects – indeed one deserving the overused, clichéd title, ...

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The fiction of adverse possession

The fiction of adverse possession

... It must be acknowledged that an argument that seeks to exclude the notion of binary opposites can be countered by the contention that a squatter is trespassing and therefore, possession must be of wrong. Yet, as briefly ...

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Fiction and Reality: Serial Killers as a Product of Postmodern Fiction

Fiction and Reality: Serial Killers as a Product of Postmodern Fiction

... Postmodernism is the theory that people are not built on what they choose to be, but are in fact a reflection of the noise, variables, and environments that surround them. It is the idea that the ‘self’ is not created ...

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