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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Historiographic Metafiction"”.
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Laurent Binet's HHhH: Historiographic Metafiction in Contemporary French Literature about World War II
… of contemporary French authors have employed metafiction—a narrative mode in which texts themselves purposefully call attention to the fact that they are fiction—when writing novels which attempt to grapple with traumatic events, namely World War II and the Holocaust. In attempting to …
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Dismember the past
This thesis is a creative literary biography, or historiographic metafiction, of the life and works of writer and composer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993). The text consists of two synchronous narratives: a fictionalised account of Burgess’ life as a writer, charting his time as a struggling would-be …
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
… with exuberant postmodern techniques such as historiographic metafiction, the hegemony of mode of productions, the postmodern fragmented self, and suspicions of grand narrative. Furthermore, I will argue that there is an association between Rushdie's postmodern narrative technique (his mixing …
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Between history and fiction : the author’s responsibility to historical fiction, and, The rainbow man : a novel
… The historical novel produced is a variant of historiographic metafiction combined with the mode of a memory novel. My critical investigation has led me to explore creatively writing history through differing perspectives of memory. In Chapter One of the critical essay, I outline the …
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The Oracle’s Dream
… fiction and the possibility of engaging with historiographic metafiction, additionally. My aesthetic choices are informed by theorists such as Brayfield et al., Stephanie Young, and Linda Hutcheon, as well as established historical fiction authors Margaret Atwood and Ariana Franklin, who have …
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Internal Punishment: A Psychoanalytical Reading of F. M. Dostoevskyʼs Crime and Punishment (1866), L. Rebreanuʼs Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroydʼs Hawksmoor (1985)
… theory of polyphony, Linda Hutcheonʼs account of historiographic metafiction and relevant philosophical perspectives such as Søren Kierkegaardʼs and Jean-Paul Sartreʼs existentialisms.
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Safe Space: A novel and accompanying critical study into the participatory culture in fandom and a historiographic approach to the fragmentation of popular culture in select novels by Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
… Culture Wars.<br/><br/>The investigation uses a historiographic, long durée (or long term) approach to test the hypothesis that periods of cultural anxiety are related to a loss of confidence in great hegemons. The research interrogates the concept of the Culture Wars, defined by Goren and Chapp …
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De Cortés al Mago de Oz: Estrategias posmodernas en el teatro latinoamericano: 1980-1992
… nonliterary genres, anachronism, ahistoricity, metafiction, transvestism and parody are used by the playwrights to question the traditional beliefs of history, genre, gender and art. By exploring these strategies, I demonstrate how the plays dismantle not only the traditions and conventions …
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A history of Austin Ballet Theatre at the Armadillo World Headquarters
… of history composition through the creation of a historiographic metafiction about Austin Ballet Theatre at the Armadillo World Headquarters. The metafiction, included as an appendix, provides an alternative way of experiencing the data towards fulfilling the research purpose of representing the …
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Neo-Victorianism and empathy : time, affect, and the ethics of reading
… neo-Victorianism from a postmodern critique of historiographic metafiction to an ethical interrogation of the reader-text relationship. This is with the aim of breathing new life into the debates associated with the genre and demonstrating new ways of reading and valuing the texts.
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Itinerant narratives: travel, identity and literary form in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction
… pilgrimage narrative, homecoming journey and historiographic metafiction are in turn deployed and transformed by the writer to accommodate the representation of different forms of displacement as well as the recounting of alternative versions of the past. The chapters making up this thesis …
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Epistolary Encounters : Diary and Letter Pastiche in Neo-Victorian Fiction.
… can be identified and analysed in works that metafictionally and self-consciously engage the nineteenth century. My study therefore examines a diverse critical awareness refracted through epistolary strategies, investigating how neo-Victorian writers collaborate with or contest critical …
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n Mosaïek van sitate: André P. Brink se Inteendeel as historiografiese interteks
… be a clear emphasis on Linda Hutcheon's views on historiographic metafiction as a human construct, Brain McHale's research regarding the shift ·of the dominant, Jacques Derrida's deconstruction theory wherein the splintering of the "Logos" is celebrated, Brian McHale's study on postmodernist …
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Escrever, resistir: ficção ameríndia na perspectiva pós -colonial
Este trabalho consiste no estudo dos romances Slash (1985), da escritora okanagan Jeannette Armstrong, e Mean Spirit (1990), da chickasaw Linda Hogan, e busca examinar de que forma as autoras ficcionalizaram, nas suas obras, certos acontecimentos da história dos povos ameríndios no século XX, como …