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The historical novel, transnationalism, and the postmodern era : presenting the past / / Susan C. Brantly
| The historical novel, transnationalism, and the postmodern era : presenting the past / / Susan C. Brantly |
| Autore | Brantly Susan C. |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical fiction - History and criticism
Literature and transnationalism History in literature |
| ISBN |
1-315-38646-1
1-315-38644-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Historical metaphors on the postmodern palette -- 2. Nation-building and the need for authenticity : Per Anders Fogelstrom's Stockholm series -- 3. Playing with historical conventions : P.C. Jersild's Return of the geniuses -- 4. Imagining a place in the past : gender and the historical novel -- 5. History, national identity, and race : Ola Larsmo's The maroon mountain -- 6. The enlightenment and postcolonialism : Tournier's Friday, Delblanc's Speranza, and Unsworth's Sacred hunger -- 7. Defending the enlightenment : P.O. Enquist's The magnetist's fifth winter and The royal physician's visit -- 8. Digging up the past : the case of Charles XII. |
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
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The Postcolonial Historical Novel [[electronic resource] ] : Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts / / by H. Dalley
| The Postcolonial Historical Novel [[electronic resource] ] : Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts / / by H. Dalley |
| Autore | Dalley H |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Soggetto topico |
African literature
Literature Fiction Oriental literature African Literature Postcolonial/World Literature Asian Literature |
| ISBN |
1-349-49693-6
1-137-45009-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Part I: Epistemologies of Historical Realism; 1 The Contemporary Postcolonial Historical Novel: Beyond Anti-Realism; 2 Allegorical Realism: Toward a Poetics of the Postcolonial Historical Novel; Part II: Allegories of Settlement; 3 Typification and Frontier Violence: Kate Grenville's The Secret River; 4 The Gender of Settler Realism: Fiona Kidman's The Captive Wife; Part III: Narrating Transnational Histories; 5 Deterritorialising Allegorical Realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea
6 Aesthetics of Absent Causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow SunPart IV: Melancholy Realisms; 7 Spectres of Civil War Trauma: Chris Abani's Song for Night; 8 Metafictional Realism and the Dialectic of Allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish; 9 Conclusion: the Historical Novel, from Postcolonial Reconciliation to Environmental Crisis; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787819503321 |
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 | ||
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The Postcolonial Historical Novel : Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts / / by H. Dalley
| The Postcolonial Historical Novel : Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts / / by H. Dalley |
| Autore | Dalley H |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Soggetto topico |
African literature
Literature Fiction Oriental literature African Literature World Literature Fiction Literature Asian Literature |
| ISBN |
9781349496938
1349496936 9781137450098 1137450096 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Part I: Epistemologies of Historical Realism; 1 The Contemporary Postcolonial Historical Novel: Beyond Anti-Realism; 2 Allegorical Realism: Toward a Poetics of the Postcolonial Historical Novel; Part II: Allegories of Settlement; 3 Typification and Frontier Violence: Kate Grenville's The Secret River; 4 The Gender of Settler Realism: Fiona Kidman's The Captive Wife; Part III: Narrating Transnational Histories; 5 Deterritorialising Allegorical Realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea
6 Aesthetics of Absent Causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow SunPart IV: Melancholy Realisms; 7 Spectres of Civil War Trauma: Chris Abani's Song for Night; 8 Metafictional Realism and the Dialectic of Allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish; 9 Conclusion: the Historical Novel, from Postcolonial Reconciliation to Environmental Crisis; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910963077003321 |
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / / Eric L. Berlatsky
| The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / / Eric L. Berlatsky |
| Autore | Berlatsky Eric L. <1972-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 250 p. :) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Theory and interpretation of narrative series |
| Soggetto topico |
Historiography
History - Philosophy Postmodernism (Literature) Historical fiction - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8142-8018-8
0-8142-7086-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910552774303321 |
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Berlatsky Eric L. <1972->
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| Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice
| Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice |
| Autore | Maurice Lisa <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular literature - English-speaking countries - History and criticism
English fiction - History and criticism American fiction - History and criticism Historical fiction - History and criticism Comparative literature - Classical and modern Civilization, Ancient, in literature Greeks in literature Romans in literature Jews in literature Christians in literature |
| ISBN | 90-04-34638-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The ancient world and popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- Part 1. Rewriting the classics in crime fiction and thrillers -- From I, Claudius to private eyes : Rome and the detective in popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- A Roman and a foreigner : Lindsey Davis's new Roman detective series / Anat Koplowitz-Breier -- "An open account from the past always needs to be settled" : Chimaira (2001), The ancient curse (2010) and receiving the past / Claudia Fratini -- Part 2. Rewriting the ancient world in a modern setting -- Going home : Xenophon's Anabasis in Sol Yurick's The warriors (1965) / Eran Almagor -- The eagle and the mockingjay : reality television as Roman gladiator culture / Dor Yaccobi -- "Atalanta just married" : a case study in Greek mythology-based fan fiction / Amanda Potter -- Part 3. Rewriting myths of classical literature -- The loves of Achilles : from epic to popular fiction / Anne Sinha -- "Home is behind, the world ahead" : reading Tolkien's The hobbit as a story of Xenia or Homeric hospitality / Hamish Williams -- Cupid and psyche : a love story (?) in comics and children's literature / Lily Glasner -- Part 4. Rewriting Jews and Christians in the ancient world -- Sadducee and pharisee in "The antagonists" by E.K. Gann / Haim Perlmutter -- Emotion and reception of the ancient world in Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur : a tale of the Christ (1880) / Emily Chow-Kambitsch -- Jewish women writing historical novels based on rabbinic sources / Tal Ilan -- Some concluding thoughts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795924503321 |
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Maurice Lisa <1968->
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| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice
| Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice |
| Autore | Maurice Lisa <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular literature - English-speaking countries - History and criticism
English fiction - History and criticism American fiction - History and criticism Historical fiction - History and criticism Comparative literature - Classical and modern Civilization, Ancient, in literature Greeks in literature Romans in literature Jews in literature Christians in literature |
| ISBN | 90-04-34638-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The ancient world and popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- Part 1. Rewriting the classics in crime fiction and thrillers -- From I, Claudius to private eyes : Rome and the detective in popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- A Roman and a foreigner : Lindsey Davis's new Roman detective series / Anat Koplowitz-Breier -- "An open account from the past always needs to be settled" : Chimaira (2001), The ancient curse (2010) and receiving the past / Claudia Fratini -- Part 2. Rewriting the ancient world in a modern setting -- Going home : Xenophon's Anabasis in Sol Yurick's The warriors (1965) / Eran Almagor -- The eagle and the mockingjay : reality television as Roman gladiator culture / Dor Yaccobi -- "Atalanta just married" : a case study in Greek mythology-based fan fiction / Amanda Potter -- Part 3. Rewriting myths of classical literature -- The loves of Achilles : from epic to popular fiction / Anne Sinha -- "Home is behind, the world ahead" : reading Tolkien's The hobbit as a story of Xenia or Homeric hospitality / Hamish Williams -- Cupid and psyche : a love story (?) in comics and children's literature / Lily Glasner -- Part 4. Rewriting Jews and Christians in the ancient world -- Sadducee and pharisee in "The antagonists" by E.K. Gann / Haim Perlmutter -- Emotion and reception of the ancient world in Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur : a tale of the Christ (1880) / Emily Chow-Kambitsch -- Jewish women writing historical novels based on rabbinic sources / Tal Ilan -- Some concluding thoughts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819713603321 |
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Maurice Lisa <1968->
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| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice
| Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular literature - English-speaking countries - History and criticism
English fiction - History and criticism American fiction - History and criticism Historical fiction - History and criticism Comparative literature - Classical and modern Civilization, Ancient, in literature Greeks in literature Romans in literature Jews in literature Christians in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-34638-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The ancient world and popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- Part 1. Rewriting the classics in crime fiction and thrillers -- From I, Claudius to private eyes : Rome and the detective in popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- A Roman and a foreigner : Lindsey Davis's new Roman detective series / Anat Koplowitz-Breier -- "An open account from the past always needs to be settled" : Chimaira (2001), The ancient curse (2010) and receiving the past / Claudia Fratini -- Part 2. Rewriting the ancient world in a modern setting -- Going home : Xenophon's Anabasis in Sol Yurick's The warriors (1965) / Eran Almagor -- The eagle and the mockingjay : reality television as Roman gladiator culture / Dor Yaccobi -- "Atalanta just married" : a case study in Greek mythology-based fan fiction / Amanda Potter -- Part 3. Rewriting myths of classical literature -- The loves of Achilles : from epic to popular fiction / Anne Sinha -- "Home is behind, the world ahead" : reading Tolkien's The hobbit as a story of Xenia or Homeric hospitality / Hamish Williams -- Cupid and psyche : a love story (?) in comics and children's literature / Lily Glasner -- Part 4. Rewriting Jews and Christians in the ancient world -- Sadducee and pharisee in "The antagonists" by E.K. Gann / Haim Perlmutter -- Emotion and reception of the ancient world in Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur : a tale of the Christ (1880) / Emily Chow-Kambitsch -- Jewish women writing historical novels based on rabbinic sources / Tal Ilan -- Some concluding thoughts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466615203321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sublime desire [[electronic resource] ] : history and post-1960s fiction / / Amy J. Elias
| Sublime desire [[electronic resource] ] : history and post-1960s fiction / / Amy J. Elias |
| Autore | Elias Amy J. <1961-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Parallax : re-visions of culture and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical fiction - History and criticism
Romance fiction - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8018-7543-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 - Theory; Chapter 1 - Sorting Out Connections; Chapter 2 - The Metahistorical Romance and the Historical Sublime; Part 2 - Analysis; Chapter 3 - Cracking the Mirror; Chapter 4 - Metamodernity; Chapter 5 - Western Modernity versus Postcolonial Metahistory; Chapter 6 - Coda; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455008903321 |
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Elias Amy J. <1961->
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| Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sublime desire [[electronic resource] ] : history and post-1960s fiction / / Amy J. Elias
| Sublime desire [[electronic resource] ] : history and post-1960s fiction / / Amy J. Elias |
| Autore | Elias Amy J. <1961-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Parallax : re-visions of culture and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical fiction - History and criticism
Romance fiction - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 0-8018-7543-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 - Theory; Chapter 1 - Sorting Out Connections; Chapter 2 - The Metahistorical Romance and the Historical Sublime; Part 2 - Analysis; Chapter 3 - Cracking the Mirror; Chapter 4 - Metamodernity; Chapter 5 - Western Modernity versus Postcolonial Metahistory; Chapter 6 - Coda; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780193903321 |
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Elias Amy J. <1961->
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| Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing history as a prophet [[electronic resource] ] : postmodernist innovations of the historical novel / / Elisabeth Wesseling
| Writing history as a prophet [[electronic resource] ] : postmodernist innovations of the historical novel / / Elisabeth Wesseling |
| Autore | Wesseling Elisabeth |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature |
| Soggetto topico | Historical fiction - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-42448-7
9786613424488 90-272-7760-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
WRITING HISTORY AS A PROPHET; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; I. Postmodernism and History; A Revival of Historical Fiction; The Corpus of Postmodernist Historical Fiction; The Delineation of Postmodernism; Postmodernism and Deconstruction; Linda Hutcheon's Poetics of Postmodernism; The Postmodern and the Utopian; Notes; II. Some Theoretical Deliberations About Genre; Genre as a Social Institution; Notes; III. The Classical Model of Historical Fiction; The Emergence of the Historical Novel; The Framing of the Waverley Novels
The Didactic Function of the Historical NovelImitation and Emulation; The Demise of Scott; Notes; IV. Modernist Experiments With the Historical Novel; A Twentieth-Century Perspective on Scott's Shallowness; Historicism Criticized; Historical Fiction and the Questioning of Objective Historical Knowledge; Modernist Innovations of the Historical Novel; The Subjectivization of History; The Transcendence of History; Sef-Reflexivity; Historical Fiction and the Detective Novel; Notes; V. Fiction Historical and Scientific; Science Fiction and the Utopian Mode Utopian Historical Fiction and Nostalgic Science FictionTime-Travelling; Uchronian Fiction; The Parodic Nature of Counterfactual Conjecture; The Political Implications of Uchronian Fiction; Modernist Self-Reflexivity Versus Postmodernist Counterfactual Parody; Notes; VI. Self-Reflexivity in Postmodernist Historical Fiction; The Conventionalization of Self-Reflexivity; Historiography in the Making; The Partiality of Historical Knowledge; The Unreliability of the Sources; Selectivity; Narrativity; Enclaves of Authenticity; History in the Making; Esthetic History; Political History Toward Counterfactual ConjectureNotes; VII. Alternate Histories; Eclecticism; Negational Counterfactual Conjecture; Uchronian Fantasies; History Turned Upside Down; Counterfactual Shifts; Closure; Parody; Coda: ""Gravity's Rainbow; Notes; Conclusion; References; INDEX |
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Wesseling Elisabeth
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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