"Since 1985 Russia has experienced a dramatic cultural and social revolution. Rosalind Marsh presents the first study of one important aspect of this process: the major part which literature has played in reassessing the past, transforming public opinion, and hence in promoting …
Integrity and historical research
by Gibbons, Tony, Sutherland, Emily
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The concept of integrity / Tony Gibbons -- 'Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism?' Historical fiction and ethics / Jerome de Groot -- Transgressive legacies of memory : the concept of Techné in Primo Levi's The periodic table / Cătălina B…
Gendering Classicism explores the intersection of feminism, historical fiction, and modernism through the work of six writers, all of whom wrote historical novels set in ancient Greece or Rome: Naomi Mitchison, Mary Butts, Laura Riding, Phyllis Bentley, Bryher, and Mary Renault.…
La novela histórica a finales del siglo XX: actas del V Seminario Internacional del Instituto…
by Romera Castillo, José, Gutiérrez Carbajo, Francisco, García-Page, Mario, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia., Instituto de Semiótica Literaria y Teatral., Cuenca, Spain)
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La novela histórica a finales del siglo XX: actas del V Seminario Internacional del Instituto…
by Romera Castillo, José, Gutiérrez Carbajo, Francisco, García-Page, Mario, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia., Instituto de Semiótica Literaria y Teatral., Cuenca, Spain)
fromBiblioteca filológica hispana
Benito Prez Galdos (1843-1920) occupies a position in Spanish literature surpassed only by Cervantes, and, like him, made a major contribution to the European novel that is now becoming widely recognized. In a semiological approach to the second period of Episodios Nacionales, D…
This study examines the ways in which films and texts re-imagine the past, to investigate what this reveals about our contemporary culture and society.
"This book looks at the ways in which films and texts re-imagine the past, to investigate what this may reveal about our contemporary culture and society. Looking at a broad range of films and books that attempt to represent the past and placing them in their own historical cont…
In this new study of George Eliot's fiction, textual attempts to imagine a coherent and unified national past are seen as producing a contradictory vision of Englishness. It is a historiographical national identity, constructed in the image of predominant, and conflicting, trend…
