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Post-historiographical metafiction: Maggie O’Farrrell’s Hamnet [PDF]
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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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]
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
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
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
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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Reading Ethically Ever After: Historiographic Metafiction Revisited [PDF]
Craps, Stef
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Still here: post-millennial metafiction and crypto-didacticism [PDF]
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]
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-
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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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