Telling Histories: Narrativizing History, Historicizing LiteratureBRILL, 08.06.2022 - 208 Seiten The proliferation of historical novels with more or less overt metafictional traits in the late seventies and eighties in Britain is a particularly arresting phenomenon at a time when historians are openly questioning the validity of the traditional concept of history understood as a scientific search for knowledge. This apparent contradiction justifies the attempt made by the contributors of this volume to analize the relationship between history and literature in English. The reader will find four preliminary essays on The End of the Classical Period establishing the characteristics of the appropriation of history since the appearance of Sir Walter Scott's historical romances with special emphasis on the Victorian novel (Dickens, Eliot, Mrs Humphry Ward), the Irish ballad and Post-Independence Indian historical fiction, as a necessary preface to the main group of essays on The Postmodernist Era devoted to establishing the common as well as the individually distinctive traits in the writings of some of the most accomplished contemporary writers in English: the more centered British novelists Margaret Drabble, Julian Barnes and William Golding as well as the more ex-centric Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson plus the playwright Caryl Churchill, and the black American novelist David Bradley. |
Inhalt
Foreword | 5 |
The Narrativization of History and the End of History | 7 |
The End of the Classical Period | 19 |
The Postmodernist Era | 71 |
Bibliography and Film References | 193 |
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Telling Histories: Narrativizing History, Historicizing Literature Susana Onega,Susana Onega Jaén Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1995 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Afro-American ballad Barnes become body British century Chaneysville Incident characters Christian Colley Colley's concept of history construction contemporary critics cuddle cultural discourse Dora End of History fact fantastic father female feminism feminist fiction Golding's Hegel's Hegelian hero heroine historian historical novel historiographic metafiction human Hutcheon Ibid identity imagination Indian individual interpreted Irish Jeanette Winterson Jeanette's literary literature London male Marlene Marlene's Melchior Midnight's Children modern Mutiny narrative narrator Nation nature nineteenth-century obsession parody passions past patriarchal personal is political philosophy play poet Poetics of Postmodernism postmodern postmodernist present protagonist reader realistic reality religion Renaissance Rites of Passage Robert Elsmere romantic Rushdie Rushdie's Saleem Salman Rushdie seems sense Sexing the Cherry sexuality signifying slaves social Spirit story Talbot Top Girls traditional truth Victorian voice William Golding Wise Children woman women words writing Young Irelanders Zaragoza University