History Meets Fiction (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
240
Utgivningsdatum
2009-10-15
Upplaga
1
Förlag
Longman
Illustratör/Fotograf
Illustrations
Illustrationer
illustrations
Dimensioner
233 x 161 x 15 mm
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390 g
Antal komponenter
1
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MINI BOOK
ISBN
9781408220122

History Meets Fiction

History : Concepts, Theories and Practice

av Beverley Southgate
Häftad,  Engelska, 2009-10-15
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This is a brilliantly illuminating and provocatively engaged study of those massively porous borderlands between history/fiction and fiction/history.
Keith Jenkins, University of Chichester

A wide-ranging and insightful analysis of the richly controversial relationship between history and fiction, Southgate's study demonstrates again and again that historical novelists and dramatists have been far more adept at communicating issues of objectivity, memory, relativism and identity than ivory-tower historical theorists. Highly recommended.

Jennifer Smyth, University of Warwick



Is history factual, or just another form of fiction?

Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands?

How do novelists represent historians and history?

The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have traditionally been seen as mutually exclusive opposites.



However, new hybrid forms of writing from historical fiction to docudramas to fictionalised biographies have led to the blurring of boundaries, and given rise to the claim that history itself is just another form of fiction.

In his thought-provoking new book, Beverley Southgate untangles this knotty relationship, setting his discussion in a broad historical and philosophical context. Throughout, Southgate invokes a variety of writers to illuminate his arguments, from Dickens and Proust, through Virginia Woolf and Daphne du Maurier, to such contemporary novelists as Tim OBrien, Penelope Lively, and Graham Swift.

Anyone interested in the many meeting points between history and fiction will find this an engaging, accessible and stimulating read.
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'This is a brilliantly illuminating and provocatively engaged study of those massively porous borderlands between history/fiction and fiction/history.' Keith Jenkins, University of Chichester, UK 'A wide-ranging and insightful analysis of the richly controversial relationship between history and fiction, Southgate's study demonstrates again and again that historical novelists and dramatists have been far more adept at communicating issues of objectivity, memory, relativism and identity than ivory-tower historical theorists. Highly recommended.' Jennifer Smyth, University of Warwick, UK

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Reader Emeritus in the History of Ideas, University of Hertfordshire

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Preface

 

Chapter 1: History and Fiction

 

Chapter 2: History: Fact or Fiction?

 

Chapter 3: Dryasdust and Co.: Some Fictional Representations of Historians

 

Chapter 4: Fiction, History, and Memory

 

Chapter 5: Fiction, History, and Ethics

 

Chapter 6: Fiction, History, and Identity

 

Chapter 7: Fiction and the Functions of History

 

Chapter 8: Endings

 

Postscript

 

Bibliography

 

Index

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