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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"historical fantasy"”.
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Beyond the outfield: Baseball fiction and historical fantasy, 1864-present
Beyond the Outfield: Baseball Fiction and Historical Fantasy, 1864-Present considers baseball’s imperial and racist past and traces the ways in which fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries imagines alternative possibilities within this history. My goal is, in part, to …
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An Exploration of Nature and Human Development in Young Adult Historical Fantasy
Traditional historical writing focuses on the cause and effect of human action, assuming that it is the historian’s responsibility to recount the ebbs and flows of human progress. In the process of laying hold of the past as a narrative of human action, historical writing has developed the tendency …
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Mirrors of the past : versions of history in science fiction and fantasy
… Thesis is that Science Fiction (SF) is a form of Historical Fiction, one which speculatively appropriates elements of the past in fulfilment of the ideological expectations of its genre readership. Chapter One presents this definition, reconciling it with some earlier definitions of SF and …
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A 'paradox of the Commons'? : The planning and everyday management of Green Point Park
… narrates its paradoxical story by drawing on historical and archival data, park observations, a transect walk, as well as qualitative interviews with city planners, park management, service providers, and the formerly sceptical local public. First, the thesis reflects on the conflictual …
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Artists Connect
<p>A collection of five pieces:</p> <ul> <li>Freedom: Essential for Writing</li> <li>Cervantes and Shakespeare: the Don and the Prince</li> <li>"The Play’s the Thing"</li> <li>Melville and Rockwell: Sea-Room and the Ordinary</li> <li><em>Housatonic</em> (Beyond the Mountain Place)</li> </ul>