The Fiction of History
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-72301-5 (ISBN)
In the first part, two chapters discuss the philosophy behind the connection between fiction and history, whether history is fiction, and the distinction between the past and history. Part two goes on to discuss the relationship between history and literature using case studies such as Virginia Woolf and Charles Dickens. Part three looks at television and film (as well as other media) through case studies such as the film Welcome to Sarajevo and Soviet and Australian films. Part four considers a particular theme that has prominence in both history and literature, postcolonial studies, focusing on the issues of fictions of nationhood and civilization and the historical novel in postcolonial contexts. Finally, the fifth section comprises two interviews with novelists Penelope Lively and Adam Thorpe and discusses the ways in which their works explore the nature of history itself.
Macfie, Alexander Lyon
Introduction. Philosophy.1. History as fiction: the pragmatic truth. 2. Fiction, imagination and the fictive: the literary aesthetics of historying.Literature.3. 'Fantastic concoction of the human brain': Virginia Woolf and historical theory. 4. The Jeddah incident: a case study in the origins of history and fiction. 5. Dickens the historian, Carlyle the novelist and Dickens, Carlyle and the French Revolution.Television and Film. 6. The siege, the book and the film: Welcome to Sarajevo (1997). 7. The end o the war in Stalinist film and legend. 8. Unsettling the revival: Australian historical films as national critique. 9. Historical representation unchained: history, fiction and Quentin Tarantino. Postcolonial studies. 10. Rewriting Algeria, past and present: history and cultural politics in two novels by Tahar Djaout. 11. Temporal disjunction in the postcolonial historical novel: re-reading time with Achebe and Rushdie.Interviews.12. 'Rearranging the past': Penelope Lively in conversation with Beverley Southgate. 13. 'History with the shatter-marks': Adam Thorpe in conversation with Natasha Alden.
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Approaches to History |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-72301-9 / 0415723019 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-72301-5 / 9780415723015 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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