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Author | : Ana Fernandes |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2018-12-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1527523519 |
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This book enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present. The focus is on authors such as A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Anne Enright, Tracy Chevalier and Ali Smith. The volume demonstrates and discusses parallels, shifts and transformations in the writing of these authors and in the rewriting of history in contemporary fiction by women authors.
Author | : 曾传芳 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Historical fiction, American |
ISBN | : 9787561442937 |
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Author | : Jeffrey Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Contesting the Master Narrative Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Social historians today are calling into question the persuasiveness of the master narratives that have dominated our stories about the past. Motivated now by personal and professional commitments to solving problems by telling stories, not by epistemological and ontological certitude, social historians are constructing alternative narratives relevant to an expanded, more inclusive audience. The essays in this thoughtful volume reflect an explicit self-consciousness about historians' choices of narrative strategies, a new skepticism of the rhetorical strategies embedded in all scholarly arguments, and a recognition that every historian has a point of view. Critically examining past master narratives in light of emerging alternatives, these essayists ask us to reevaluate the stories we tell, the narrative traditions within which they are situated, and the audiences they are designed to persuade. The first essays explore the gendered character of social history rhetoric by exposing alternative, feminist traditions of social scientific and social historical writing. The second section focuses on alternative narrative traditions of historical writing in non-European contexts, specifically India, Japan, and China. And the third group spotlights the rhetorical uses of synthesis in the writings of social historians. The essays feature the range of narrative possibilities available to historians who have become self-critical about the pervasive use of unexamined master narratives; they show how limited that tradition can be compared with the diverse alternatives derived from, for example, gendered traditions of Latin American travel writers of the nineteenth century, Victorian women's historical writing, or the lively subaltern tradition in Indian social history. Together they argue not for the abandonment of historical materialism or the elimination of all master narratives but for the reinvigoration of social history through the use of new and more persuasive arguments based on alternative narratives.
Author | : Jon Wesley Rozhon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Fictional and Historical Narrative Strategies in the Writings of R.M. Koster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Allen C. Guelzo |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190865695 |
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Reconstruction: A Concise History' is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans into the political mainstream of American life, and to recreate the Southern economy after a Northern, free-labor model.
Author | : Nishevita J. Murthy |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-10-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443869147 |
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Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History brings together two authors, Umberto Eco and Orhan Pamuk, not frequently studied in comparison. By focusing on their non/fictional works to present a unique study of the methods and concepts of representation, Murthy uses contemporary historical novels to examine fictional depictions of reality, and provides a fresh perspective on representation studies in literature. Written in an accessible style, and tapping into fields as varied as literary and critical theory, the historical novel, postmodernism, and historiography, Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History considers the ways in which reality, as discourse, confronts a text-external reality, and how this confrontation affects the autonomy of the fictional space – topics that remain persistently problematic areas within literary studies. Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Baudolino, and Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Snow, with their topical concerns and methods of representation, promise a rewarding comparative study. This book provides an early critical framework for these four works, placing them within the rubric of the postmodernist historical novel, as creative works that also comment on the process of literary writing through their recreation of historical pasts. In this respect, Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History promises to be an engaging read in literary criticism and historiography, as well as a handy companion for Eco and Pamuk enthusiasts.
Author | : Marialuisa Bignami |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1443832685 |
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The relation between narration and history from the perspective of the twentieth century – the century of criticisms – suggests a new outlook fit for the new millennium. We can no longer look at history and historiography naively, but must be aware of the rhetorical strategies that are at work in the writing. A research group based in Milan has been working on this topic for a few years, discussing authors and texts from different genres and epochs. The essays presented here deal with texts chosen because of their intrinsic relevance to the history of English-speaking cultures and recent critical perspectives – largely, but not exclusively, indebted to Hayden White. Thus the volume considers instances of narrativity and historical discourse in authors as diverse as S. Johnson, E. Chambers, C. Hill, J. Raban, V. Woolf, N. Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, S. Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, A. Ghosh.
Author | : Lucy A. Cahill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Digression (Rhetoric) in literature |
ISBN | : |
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"Digression has a presence in some of the earliest modern novels, fom Cervantes' Don Quixote and Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy to Manzoni's I promessi sposi (The Betrothed). In these novels, digression can be seen to parody and thus stimulate reflection upon established narrative conventions. To this day, many authors have utilised the de-stabilising potential of digression to various ends in their writings. Studies by Olivia Santovetti (2005) and Ross Chambers (1999) provide an eclectic analysis of such digressive writing in Italian and French twentieth-century literature respectively. Taking inspiration from such studies, my thesis considers the role of digressive narrative devices in historical fictions by Italian women writers from the twentieth century onwards.
Author | : Nandita Batra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Narrating the Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Narrative constitutes an integral part of human existence, being omnipresent in our ordering of the world and the ways in which we transmit both knowledge and experience. Narrative construction has challenged the supremacy of empirical fact and has questioned our ability to know the past Aas it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, from ancient Greece and medieval Britain to contemporary America, Asia, Australia, Britain and the Caribbean, the essays in this volume address the inconsistencies in master narratives to reveal that all representations of the past, like knowledge, are situated.
Author | : Carole Emberton |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807166030 |
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Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war’s meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar attention from scholars. Remembering Reconstruction ably fills this void, assembling a prestigious lineup of Reconstruction historians to examine the competing social and historical memories of this pivotal and violent period in American history. Many consider the period from 1863 (beginning with slave emancipation) to 1877 (when the last federal troops were withdrawn from South Carolina and Louisiana) an “unfinished revolution” for civil rights, racial-identity formation, and social reform. Despite the cataclysmic aftermath of the war, the memory of Reconstruction in American consciousness and its impact on the country’s fraught history of identity, race, and reparation has been largely neglected. The essays in Remembering Reconstruction advance and broaden our perceptions of the complex revisions in the nation's collective memory. Notably, the authors uncover the impetus behind the creation of black counter-memories of Reconstruction and the narrative of the “tragic era” that dominated white memory of the period. Furthermore, by questioning how Americans have remembered Reconstruction and how those memories have shaped the nation's social and political history throughout the twentieth century, this volume places memory at the heart of historical inquiry.