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Writing History as a Prophet : Postmodernist Innovations of the Historical Novel.
This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1991.
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| Colección: | Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ;
v. 26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre. Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulk. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027277602 9027277605 1283424487 9781283424486 9786613424488 661342448X |
| ISSN: | 0167-8175 ; |