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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"the historical novel"”.
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Literary Dimensions of National Identity: The Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s--1980s)
"The dissertation examines the changes that took place in the 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 …
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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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La novela histórica de ayer a hoy La tierra del fuego como prototipo ilustre
Abstract This study, conducted to complete the degree of MA in Spanish from the University of Iceland, seeks to investigate the current status of the Historical Novel as a literary genre through the analysis of the novel La tierra del fuego (1998), by the Argentinian novelist Sylvia Iparraguirre. …
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Creating the Present From the Ideological Margins of Society: Pseudo -Autobiographies in Post -Dictatorship Spain
An introduction discusses the characteristics of pseudo-autobiography and the techniques developed by these authors to battle society's dominant ideologies and discusses the dramatic changes both in Spanish society and in the authors themselves, which contributed to the rise of the new historical …
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And Her Increase and Selected Stories
… and renegotiates her relationship with the white father of her children in the aftermath of the Civil War. Foreclosed homeowners find a literally explosive artifact. Co-workers cope with layoffs and a suicide. A fugitive witch struggles against a fantasy theocracy. A revolutionary tries …
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Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio
… characterized by elements of renewal within the novel-writing tradition and of discontinuity with postmodern culture. It proposes an interpretation of the genres of the historical novel and crime fiction in the last fifteen years, in order to underline the important role played by these types …
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Mirrors of the past : versions of history in science fiction and fantasy
The primary argument of this 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 …
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Novela histórico-posmoderna: Re-examinando el referente histórico – narrativo del Siglo de Oro en cuatro textos de Arturo Pérez-Reverte
This thesis explores the relationships between reality and fiction on Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novels about Captain Alatriste. Four out of six novels about this character will be discussed and the analysis of this work will focus on how the author uses historical data and fiction not only to promote …
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Between history and fiction : the author’s responsibility to historical fiction, and, The rainbow man : a novel
This thesis contains a work of historical fiction followed by a critical essay exploring the aspect of responsibility in historical fiction through the lenses of familial storytelling, memory, trauma memory, and collective memory. The historical novel produced is a variant of historiographic …
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Dispossession, Realism and the History of Neoliberalism in Peru and Colombia (1964-2014)
This dissertation belongs to the fields of Latin American literary studies, Marxist literary criticism, and Andean studies. Throughout the dissertation, I explore profound connections between these fields to study the historical dimension in the Peruvian and Colombian novels of the second half of …
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Rebels, Wanderers, and Castaways: Characterizing Small Social Groups in the Literature of Empire, 1849-1914
… subgenres—adventure fiction, school stories, the historical novel and spy fiction—to argue that literary representations of small social circles create distinct narrative shapes and modes of characterization. The small groups that shape these texts generate an ambivalent dynamism of small …
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Social Memory and Nineteenth-Century British Historical Fiction
This dissertation examines 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 …
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The conception and evolution of characterization in the Zulu novel
… literary critics, viz that characterization in the Zulu novel is static and should be modelled on the Eurocentric canon. Investigation into this problem shows the opposite. Particular attention is devoted to demonstrating that characterization in the Zulu novel is evolutionary. And it is indeed …
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Rewriting urban narratives of the Australian Great Depression.
Rewriting Narratives of the Australian Great Depression is a thesis consisting of a novel, Dadaville, and an exegesis. Inspired by a Max Ernst painting of the same name, Dadaville is set in Sydney in 1931, a city in the grip of brutal poverty. The unemployed riot as they are evicted from homes in …
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Beyond postmodernism: London fiction at the millennium
This thesis is concerned with an analysis of London fiction at the millennium (leading up to and beyond the year 2000). This study involves an exploration of texts that can in some way be regarded as occupying a space beyond postmodernism. It explores how a selection of contemporary London novels …
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This Irish Fiction of Emily Lawless: a narrative analysis
If the measure of a writer‟s relevance is the extent to which he or she registers the discursive range of the period in which they write and the extent to which subsequent generations can recover that discursive energy from his or her work, then Emily Lawless should require no justification for …
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
"Between the dawn of the nineteenth century and its close, Britain went from a predominantly rural nation with modest territorial holdings to an urban industrial power with an expansive imperial presence. This dissertation, ""Victorian Literature and Historical Time: Genre and Historicity after …