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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552774303321

Autore

Berlatsky Eric L. <1972->

Titolo

The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / / Eric L. Berlatsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-8142-8018-8

0-8142-7086-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 250 p. :) : ill. ;

Collana

Theory and interpretation of narrative series

Disciplina

809.3/81

Soggetti

Historiography

History - Philosophy

Postmodernism (Literature)

Historical fiction - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Memory as forgetting": historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present: history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now": historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true": metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories": truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.