The historical novel, transnationalism, and the postmodern era : presenting the past / / Susan C. Brantly |
Autore | Brantly Susan C. |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910165046103321 |
Brantly Susan C. | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Dalley H | ||
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 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-9910815546503321 |
Dalley H | ||
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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 |
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 |
Berlatsky Eric L. <1972-> | ||
Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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 |
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 |
Maurice Lisa <1968-> | ||
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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 |
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 |
Maurice Lisa <1968-> | ||
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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 |
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] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Elias Amy J. <1961-> | ||
Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Elias Amy J. <1961-> | ||
Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sublime desire : history and post-1960s fiction / / Amy J. Elias |
Autore | Elias Amy J. <1961-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
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-9910814131603321 |
Elias Amy J. <1961-> | ||
Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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