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1.
Brushing History against the Grain: Reading the Chinese New Historical Fiction (1986-1999)
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Publisher:
Hong Kong University Press 2005
Subjects:
Historical Fiction, Chinese--20th Century--History and Criticism
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...expounded the birth of modern historical fiction as a differentgenre from the...artistic form of modern Chinese historical fiction] (ibid., 56); allothers...Chenghua's delineation of modern historical fiction actually entails adistinction...
2.
Recreating the Past: A Guide to American and World Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults
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Publisher:
Greenwood Press 1994
Subjects:
Children's Literature--Bibliography
Young Adult Literature--Bibliography
Historical Fiction--Juvenile Literature--Bibliography
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...historical fantasy."Creators of historical fiction must be historians as well...achronological factual report while the historical fiction writerchooses to weave the...find themdry and unappealing. Historical fiction provides protagonists withwhom...
3.
Archival Reflections: Postmodern Fiction of the Americas (Self-Reflexivity, Historical Revisionism, Utopia)
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Publisher:
Bucknell University Press 2000
Subjects:
Historical Fiction, Spanish American--History And Criticism
Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism
Spanish American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
Postmodernism (Literature)--Latin America
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States
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...00ADriographic postmodern fiction.Although their internal...works to establish its historical and aestheticcontext...and evaluat­ing historical novels vis-á...to be faithful to the historical record, neverthelessuse...00ADels suggest that fiction is a system of knowledge...
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Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film
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Publisher:
Temple University Press 1994
Subjects:
Historical Films--History And Criticism
Motion Pictures--Political Aspects
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...concentrate on those fiction filmsthat have a meaningful relationship to historical events, settingaside...nevertheless relatedto it. Historical fiction films interpret and...analysis anddiscusses the historical fiction film as a genre.Behind...
6.
Cervantes and the Turks: Historical Reality Versus Literary Fiction in La Gran Sultana and El Amante Liberal
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Publisher:
Juan De La Cuesta 1992
Subjects:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Views on Ottoman Empire
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote. English
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote. English
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...primarily a writer of fiction and not a historianconcerned...ofdiscourse.The term historical itself lends itself...to be regarded as historical, but, for a concept...cutdistinction between historical writings and fiction. Witnesses tohistorical...
8.
The American Historical Novel
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Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press 1950
Subjects:
Historical Fiction
United States--History--Fiction
United States--History--Fiction--Bibliography
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...then what is the needof y? A historical novel is a novel the action of...sufficientto render a preceding period historical.Some critics, notwithstanding...novels,have sought to disparage historical fiction as a bastard art. Theyshrug...
9.
The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
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Publisher:
Cornell University Press 1996
Subjects:
History In Literature
English Fiction--18th Century--History And Criticism
Literature And History--Great Britain--History--18th Century
Historiography--Great Britain--History--18th Century
Historical Fiction, English--History And Criticism
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...Thepresumed reference of historical writing to actual events...method of separating fiction from history, although...associated with realistic fiction, and fiction oftensimulates some of the techniques of historical writing, including...
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Fiction Fights the Civil War: An Unfinished Chapter in the Literary History of the American People
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Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press 1957
Subjects:
Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism
War Stories, American--History And Criticism
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature And The War
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...of His­torical Fiction, p. 67. I am indebted...the ground rules for historical fiction Oneeagerly welcomes...general description of war fiction seems torequire notice...borne incomfort the "historical-pastoral, tragical...
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