03376nam 2200601Ia 450 991080865250332120240131153702.01-4438-4680-5(CKB)2670000000341143(EBL)1133050(OCoLC)830168383(SSID)ssj0000859947(PQKBManifestationID)11440993(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000859947(PQKBWorkID)10882403(PQKB)10856727(Au-PeEL)EBL1133050(CaPaEBR)ebr10676955(CaONFJC)MIL495891(OCoLC)802327702(FINmELB)ELB147659(MiAaPQ)EBC1133050(EXLCZ)99267000000034114320120730d2012 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccr(Re)visions of history in language and fiction /edited by Dorota Guttfeld, Monika Linke and Agnieszka SowinskaNewcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.20121 online resource (392 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-4020-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; EDITING THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; REVISIONS OF HISTORY; REVISIONING THE IDEOLOGY OF ANTI-CONQUEST; THE WITCH'S STORY; FIRE ISLAND; THE FEMALE RELATIONS TO THE GRAND NARRATIVES OF HISTORY IN THE FICTIONS OF MARGARET LAURENCE AND ALICE MUNRO; PATHS FOR UNDERSTANDING 'KANATA' IN SURVIVAL BY MARGARET ATWOOD; ON TRAUMA; OUT-WITH, VENICE, AND DISLOCATION; REWRITING LIVES, RETELLING STORIES; THE EASTERN AND WESTERN PERCEPTION OF THE SOVIET UNION; RE-EVALUATION OF THE PAST IN ELECTRONIC DISCOURSE; THE SARMATIAN CULTURAL TURN IN 21ST-CENTURY POLANDREVISION OF GENDER STEREOTYPES IN SELECTED WOMEN'S PERFUME COMMERCIALSHISTORICAL REFERENCES AS ARGUMENTS IN JERZY BUZEK'S SELECTED SPEECHES; REVISION OF VALUES IN THE US PRESIDENTS' STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESSES (2001-2010); BATTLESTAR GALACTICA AS A REFLECTION OF POST-9/11 ANXIETIES; AUSTER'S ALTERNATIVE HISTORY; ANTIPODES OF HISTORY?; TIME-TRAVELING TO HISTORICAL PAST IN CHILDREN'S FICTION; WHAT IF? RE-IMAGINING THE JEWISH HISTORY; IT'S ELEMENTARY, MY SEAR O'LOCHAINN; HISTORY AND STORY IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIESIn imagining history, one must inevitably rely on its textual representations, whether fictitious or supposedly "objective", yet always subject to the constraints and conventions of textuality. Still, it is precisely by exploiting and consciously relying on the textual in the presentation of the past that contemporary authors, including politicians and makers of history, strive to provide it with current significance, emotional impact and universal meaning. The study of such attempts benefits...Revisions of history in language and fictionHistoriographyHistorical fictionHistoriography.Historical fiction.809.381Guttfeld Dorota1694155Linke Monika1694156Sowinska Agnieszka1694157MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808652503321Re)visions of history in language and fiction4072511UNINA