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Post-historiographical metafiction: Maggie O’Farrrell’s Hamnet [PDF]

open access: yesIzvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Philology. Journalism, 2021
Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet (2020), the novel about Shakespeare’s son and wife, is considered as the continuation of postmodernist interest in Shakespeare exemplified by A. Burgess’s and R. Nye’s novels about the Bard. However, O’Farrell’s approach to history through the lens of everyday family life, her present-tense narrative and especially her manner ...
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Fabulative Histories and Syncopated Voices in Doctorow's RagtimeA part of PhD dissertation entitled as;Histories Revisited: A New Historicist Reading of Doctorow’s Ragtime, Pynchon’s Mason and Dixon and Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023
Doctorow’s Ragtime is a novel which Linda Hutcheon has labeled as a Historiographic Metafictional narrative, i.e., a work which self-consciously draws attention to its artificiality.
Marwan Maho Abdi   +1 more
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“You will see the logic of the design of this”: from historiography to taxonomography in the contemporary metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Although, in some ways, Sarah Waters’s Affinity looks akin to historiographic metafiction, M.-L. Kohlke has persuasively argued that the text is more accurately dubbed “new(meta)realism”, a mode that demonstrates the exhausted potential of the form. This
Eve, Martin Paul
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Postmodernisme: doelgerig of vrolike fuif? 'n Polisieroman en 'n moorddroom

open access: yesLiterator, 1994
The incredulity towards metanarratives in the postmodernist era holds serious implications for historiography. Two "historiographic metafictional novels" (Hutcheon's term), one Flemish and one Afrikaans, are discussed in this article.
W. Burger
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Remapping Englishness in Peter Ackroyd’s Milton in America

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2022
Peter Ackroyd’s historiographic metafictional novel Milton in America (2006) entails a critical return to history – critical in the sense that it questions the essence of historical knowledge and revisits the past in order to comment on the politics of ...
Farahmandfar Masoud
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"Faço tábula da fábula rasa". Decolonial rewriting of Brazil in Paulo Leminski's Catatau

open access: yesVeredas, 2022
As a particular form of historiographic metafiction dealing with the Dutch colonization of Brazil, Paulo Leminski's "novel-idea" Catatau (1975) seems less concerned with factual history than with the epistemic dimensions of colonial discourse about ...
Peter Schulze
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Still here: post-millennial metafiction and crypto-didacticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A piece on mutations in metafiction and the didacticism ...
Eve, Martin Paul
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“some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us”: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and metafiction after the millennium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban’s philosophical perspectives and Mitchell’s inter-textual genre-
Adorno T. W.   +37 more
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From the Blitz to the Boer War, Re-presenting (Inter)National and Colonial Wars and Personal Traumas: Craig Higginson’s The Landscape Painter as a lyrical epic

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2022
When he sees the young woman who is going to be the new lodger of the bedsit next to his, Arthur Bailey, an elderly painter who now lives as a recluse in post-World War Two London, is suddenly thrown back into the past.
Mathilde Rogez
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