Temporal Systems in Representations of the Past: Distance, Freedom and Irony in Historical Fiction
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A common response to the historical novel's blurring of the boundary between history and fiction is to search for something that distinguishes the two. A concept sometimes invoked is the idea of 'distance' - a spatial metaphor that names the conceptual separation between past and present assumed to be a precondition of historical understanding. Disciplinary history, the argument goes, depends on respecting the distance between the current-day researcher and his or her objects of inquiry....[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2013 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/59025 |
Book Title: | Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past |
DOI: | 10.1057/9781137291547_3 |
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