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Author:   Alexander Lyon Macfie
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138283169

ISBN 10:   1138283169
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Philosophy. 1. History as fiction: the pragmatic truth. 2. Fiction, imagination and the fictive: the literary aesthetics of historying. Literature. 3. 'Fantastic concoction of the human brain': Virginia Woolf and historical theory. 4. The Jeddah incident: a case study in the origins of history and fiction. 5. Dickens the historian, Carlyle the novelist and Dickens, Carlyle and the French Revolution. Television and Film. 6. The siege, the book and the film: Welcome to Sarajevo (1997). 7. The end o the war in Stalinist film and legend. 8. Unsettling the revival: Australian historical films as national critique. 9. Historical representation unchained: history, fiction and Quentin Tarantino. Postcolonial studies. 10. Rewriting Algeria, past and present: history and cultural politics in two novels by Tahar Djaout. 11. Temporal disjunction in the postcolonial historical novel: re-reading time with Achebe and Rushdie. Interviews. 12. 'Rearranging the past': Penelope Lively in conversation with Beverley Southgate. 13. 'History with the shatter-marks': Adam Thorpe in conversation with Natasha Alden.

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'In a historicized world conscious of having an historical consciousness historicization far exceeds its purely academic practice. The Fiction of History explores this cognitive situation through both theoretical reflections and studies of particular authors and media to show that contemporary theories of language and narrative, allied with historical fiction, have produced new types of historicization. The Fiction of History, therefore, offers an indispensable perspective on the current state of history.' - Martin L. Davies, University of Leicester, UK

'In a historicized world conscious of having an historical consciousness historicization far exceeds its purely academic practice. The Fiction of History explores this cognitive situation through both theoretical reflections and studies of particular authors and media to show that contemporary theories of language and narrative, allied with historical fiction, have produced new types of historicization. The Fiction of History, therefore, offers an indispensable perspective on the current state of history.' - Martin L. Davies, University of Leicester, UK 'In a historicized world conscious of having an historical consciousness historicization far exceeds its purely academic practice. The Fiction of History explores this cognitive situation through both theoretical reflections and studies of particular authors and media to show that contemporary theories of language and narrative, allied with historical fiction, have produced new types of historicization. The Fiction of History, therefore, offers an indispensable perspective on the current state of history.' - Martin L. Davies, University of Leicester, UK 'Each of these essays examines the distinct capaci-ties and ends of history and of literature or film in repre-sentation of the past: from empirical accuracy and legal significance to ethical intervention and aesthetic effect... the book presents an interesting and valuable collection of analyses of the differing capacities of literary, filmic, and historical accounts of historical events.' - Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania, American Historical Review

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