Speculative fictions : contemporary Canadian novelists and the writing of history /

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"Herb Wyile provides a comparative analysis of the historical concerns and textual strategies of twenty novels published since the appearance of Rudy Wiebe's groundbreaking The Temptations of Big Bear in 1973. Drawing on the work of theorists and critics such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Fredric Ja...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wyile, Herb, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Historical fiction, Canadian > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Novelists, Canadian > 20th century.
Historical fiction, Canadian (English) > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Novelists, Canadian (English) > 20th century.
Roman historique canadien-anglais > Histoire et critique.
Roman canadien-anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Romanciers canadiens-anglais > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
Canadian fiction
Historical fiction, Canadian
Novelists, Canadian
Literatur
Geschichte > Motiv
Kanada
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • History, theory, and the contemporary Canadian historical novel
  • Historical sites
  • The content of the form : textual strategies
  • Speculating in fiction : commodity culture and the crisis of historicity
  • Period piece.

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