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ONEGA, Susana (ed.). "Telling Histories: Narrativizing History, Historicizing Narrative": Amsterdam ; Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995, 208 pp.
Ricardo Miguel Alfonso (res.)
Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses: RAEI, ISSN-e 2171-861X, ISSN 0214-4808, Nº. 8, 1995, págs. 275-276
The proliferation of historical novels with more or less overt metafictional traits in the late seventies and eighties in Britain is a particularly arresting phenomenon at a time when historians are openly questioning the validity of the traditional concept of history understood as a scientific search for knowledge. This apparent contradiction justifies the attempt made by the contributors of this volume to analize the relationship between history and literature in English. The reader will find four preliminary essays on "The End of the Classical Period" establishing the characteristics of the appropriation of history since the appearance of Sir Walter Scott's historical romances with special emphasis on the Victorian novel (Dickens, Eliot, Mrs Humphry Ward), the Irish ballad and Post-Independence Indian historical fiction, as a necessary preface to the main group of essays on "The Postmodernist Era" devoted to establishing the common as well as the individually distinctive traits in the writings of some of the most accomplished contemporary writers in English: the more "centered" British novelists Margaret Drabble, Julian Barnes and William Golding as well as the more "ex-centric" Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson plus the playwright Caryl Churchill, and the black American novelist David Bradley.
"A knack for yarns": the narrativization of history and the end of history
págs. 7-18
"Sixty years since": victorian historical fiction from Dickens to Eliot
págs. 21-30
Mary A. Ward´s theism as reflected in Robert´s Elsmere: an illustration of the ultimate hegelian paradox
págs. 31-47
The ballad history of Ireland: the poetic legacy of the young ireland movement
págs. 49-59
In the shadow of the mutiny: reflections on two post-independence novels on the 1857 uprising
págs. 61-70
An irreverent chronicle: history and fiction in Salman Rushdie´s "Midnight´s Children"
págs. 73-84
William Golding´s "Rites of passage": a world in transition
págs. 85-102
The personal is political in Caryl Churchill´s "Top Girls": a parable for the feminist movement in Thatcher´s Britain
págs. 103-115
"How you cuddle in the dark governs how you see the history of the world": a note on some obsessions in recent -British fiction
págs. 117-134
"I´m telling you stories. Trust me": history/story-telling in Jeanette Winterson´s "Oranges are not the only fruit"
págs. 135-147
págs. 149-162
"We are no angels": woman versus history in Angela Carter´s "Wise children"
págs. 163-180
David Bradley´s "The Chaneysville incident": the narrator as historian
págs. 181-191
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