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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Historical Novels"”.
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The historical novels of Jessie Joyce Gwayi
… has been the worst drawback to the budding Zulu historical novelist. Here also a few writers of various Zulu books are reviewed. Most of these books found their way into the classroom because there had been no Zulu literature except the Holy Bible. This was so chiefly because, for a long time, …
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Teaching the Voices of History Through Primary Sources and Historical Fiction: A Case Study of Teacher and Librarian Roles
… century. Empathy for the human participants of historical times has been deemed by a number of educators as important for the development of historical understanding. The classroom teacher and the school librarian both have a prominent stake in creating educational experiences that foster the …
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Ricardian women, mythogenesis, and webbing: Analysis and application of rhetorical principles of the historical novel in Rosemary Jarman's ricardian cycle
The classic definition of the historical novel largely ignores modern women--centered historical novels which move in cyclic, non-linear fashion and create webs of narrative which interact intertextually. The current study looks at a modern cycle of historical novels (Rosemary Jarman's ricardian …
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Social Memory and Nineteenth-Century British Historical Fiction
… the representation of social memory in British historical fiction from 1810 to 1880. I argue that social memory is crucial to the analysis of historical fiction during this period because it affords us an opportunity to see how authors in the nineteenth century viewed the social dimensions of …
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Declare I Dare Not
… on dialogue and seven chapters of a young adult historical fiction novel. The craft paper focuses on the use of dialogue to convey information rather than other means such as backstory and flashback, and it analyses these strategies in three historical novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by …
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Robert Hugh Benson and the Catholic Literary Revival in Edwardian England
… wrote official histories, Benson wrote historical novels to advance the claim that the sixteenth century was responsible for British social disintegration. By presenting history as art, Benson presented his Christian worldview in a palatable form. Benson also had a complex relationship …
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“Horatio Dawn” and “Invisibly somewhere between the two clauses”
… To locate this knowledge in the field of historical fiction, I undertake a critical reading of three historical novels that feature William Dampier as the main character: Recognition by Dijon Deverell; Brother Captain and The Cygnet Adventure, both by Alan Chester. To aid with this …
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The narrative structures of Robert Graves' historical fiction: a progression toward a conception of the hero in history
… to fill that gap by investigating Robert Graves’ historical fiction in order to test whether his theories on mythology and poetry can also be found to play a part in his conception of history and historical legends. To that end, Graves’ historical novels have been analysed from various …
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Literary Dimensions of National Identity: The Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s--1980s)
… popular and ideologically ""safest"" genre of historical novel in the post-Stalin period in two Soviet literatures, Russian and Ukrainian. In this comparative study the author analyzes a set of novels by Russian and Ukrainian writers which center on Kievan Rus', medieval Muscovy, and the period …
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"Unspoken sermons": Christian preaching in British fiction, 1979-2004
… as represented by Antonia Byatt and David Lodge, historical novels written by Geraldine Brooks and Jane Rogers and fiction by John Murray and Michael Arditti sited in specific religious, spiritual or ecclesiastical environments. The thesis develops an analytical toolkit, based mainly on rhetorical …
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No More Heroes? The Representation of the English Working Class in the Booker Prize Shortlists
… Prize has had a substantial influence on which novels written in the English language are bought and read. Most studies of the Booker’s influence concentrate on its creation of ‘literariness,’ its links with prize culture and its influence on the development of the postcolonial canon. This …
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The reappropriation of the Victorian in the novels of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter
In their novels, Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood display more influence from Victorian literature than may be immediately apparent. While they have both written historical novels that have been embraced by Neo-Victorian studies, the influence of the literature of the nineteenth century goes …
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"The ""Full Bloom of Rosy Health"": Fitness and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"
… American literature, especially popular novels, publicized and enhanced the ""Cult of True Womanhood"" (Barbara Welter) and the ""Cult of Female Invalidism"" (Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English, Ann Douglas Wood, etc.) via portrayals of weak, submissive and sickly female heroines. …
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New Men for New Women: Male Characters in American Women's Writing, 1794--1878
… examines representations of men and manhood in novels by five American women published between 1794 and 1878. It demonstrates that despite differences in form, setting, and artistic aim, these novels valorize similarly constituted male characters, the ""new men"" of my title. New men define …
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Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities
… through the stories we tell. Juxtaposing three historical cases that have constituted transitional justice according to divergent ideological paths, Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice compares and cross-references the final reports on three high-profile transitional justice cases: …
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Fur, fangs and feathers: colonial and counter-colonial portrayals of American Indians in young adult fantasy literature
… the majority of these have focused on historical novels, rather than analysing fantasy literature. Additionally, I have found no direct comparisons between texts by Native and non-Native authors, and the impact of authorship on the representations of American Indian characters. I …
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Diasporic Reasoning: The Idea of Africa and the Production of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
… examine the impact of the African diaspora upon historical consciousness by arguing that the encounter with the specter of slave insurrection produces cognitive (and in turn, formal) ruptures in two historical novels, Herman Melville's <italic>Benito Cereno</italic> and George Washington Cable's …
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