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Titre(s) : The fiction of history [Texte imprimé] / edited by Alexander Lyon Macfie
Publication : London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-209 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge approaches to history ; 7
Lien à la collection : Routledge approaches to history
Comprend : Introduction / Alexander Lyon Macfie ; PART I. PHILOSOPHY ; History as fiction
: the pragmatic truth / Jonathan Gorman ; Fiction, imagination and the fictive :
the literary aesthetics of historying / Alun Munslow ; PART II. LITERATURE ; 'Fantastic
concoction of the human brain' : Virginia Woolf and the fiction of history / Beverley
Southgate ; The Jeddah Incident : a case study in the origins of history and fiction
/ Alexander Lyon Macfie ; Dickens the historian, Carlyle the novelist, and Dickens,
Carlyle and the French Revolution / David Paroissien ; PART III. FILM ; The siege,
the book and the film : Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) / Claire Norton and Mark Donnelly
; The end of the war in Stalinist film and legend / Judith Devlin ; Unsettling the
revival : Australian historical films as national critique / Sarah Pinto ; Historical
representation unchained : history, fiction and Quentin Tarantino / Kalle Pihlainen
; PART IV. POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES ; Rewriting Algeria, past and present : history and
cultural politics in two novels by Tahar Djaout / Jane Hiddleston ; Temporal disjunction
in the postcolonial historical novel : re-reading time with Achebe and Rushdie / Hamish
Dalley ; PART V. INTERVIEWS ; 'Rearranging the past' : Penelope Lively in conversation
with Beverley Southgate ; 'History with the shatter-marks' : Adam Thorpe in conversation
with Natasha Alden.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history
and fiction, emphasising the tensions and dilemmas created in this relationship and
examining how various writers have dealt with these. 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"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Macfie, Alexander Lyon (1931-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Historiographie -- Histoire
Littérature et histoire
Philosophie de l'histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415723015 (hardback). - ISBN 0415723019 (hardback). - ISBN 9781315773544
(erroné) (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44276800g
Notice n° :
FRBNF44276800
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