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The Living Presence of Invisible Agencies and Unseen Powers – The Dramatised and Reinvented History of Peter Ackroyd’s Novels

American and British Studies Annual, 2016
The voluminous body of work of Peter Ackroyd, one of the most versatile contemporary British writers, comprises chiefly of non-fiction and fiction. The first is dominated by his books on English history, English literature, the history and development ...
Petr Chalupský
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Historiographic Metafiction in Okey Ndibe’s Arrow of Rain

International Research Journal on Advanced Engineering and Management (IRJAEM)
Postmodernism is concerned with untold, retold, or not told history. History as it never was histories that have been altered, erased, concealed, forgotten, and deemed inconsequential. It has to do with not viewing history as linear. Many critics view African literary works as social chronicles that address the continent's politics and culture ...
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The place of historical novel for young readers within the historical and literary canon [PDF]

, 2006
Many issues are raised when authors set their stories in the past. First and foremost there is the balance that must be kept between the responsibility owed to historical truth and the need to write a story which in its emotional and narrative truth ...
Filardo Llamas, Laura, Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Marta María   +1 more
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Unheard Playful Voices: Margaret Atwood᾽s Grace Marks as an (Reliably) Unreliable Narrator

American and British Studies Annual, 2015
The unreliable narrator, a category with a question mark since the 1960s when it was identified by Wayne C. Booth, has been a challenge for many literary theorists including James Phelan, Monika Fludernik and Ansgar Nünning to name just a few.
Vladimíra Fonfárová
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Historiographic metafiction or lying with the truth

, 2001
In this project I ground my reading of historiographic metafiction in a series of postmodern texts which work out of and subvert traditional notions of historical writing. I use Linda Hutcheon's construction of this postmodern genre to investigate the particular literary and historical strategies these texts use and abuse in order to write an ...
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Bodily abounds. Hilary Mantel's <i>The Mirror and the Light</i> as Cixousian 'feminine text'. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Andabak A.
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From Ostalgie To Ostodium. The Anti-Communist Novel in Post-1989 East-Central Europe¹. [PDF]

Cent Eur
Stan A, Borza C.
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A LITERATURE REVIEW: POSTMODERNISM AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION

International Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020
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The Actualization of a Distant Past: Carmen Boullosa\u27s Historiographic Metafiction [PDF]

, 1995
Chorba, Carrie C.
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Historiographic Metafiction in North America : A Comparative Approach

, 2019
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