History, Storytelling, and Narrative Construction of Reality in Graham Swift’s Waterland
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
History, Storytelling, and Narrative Construction of Reality in Graham Swift’s Waterland
Original language description
This paper discusses the ways in which Graham Swift's Waterland, like other works of historiographic metafiction, thematizes the problem of historiography as narrative construction of the past guided by certain rules and conventions. Waterland demonstrates how thin the boundary between history and stories can possibly become, while resisting the postmodern temptation of equating historiography with fiction. Comparisons to two other works of historiographic metafiction, Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger and Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot, are made where appropriate to illustrate how the level of present dominates over the actual story of the past in historiographic metafiction and to support the paper’s claim that by questioning the objectivity of history such novels do not aim to erase the boundary between factual and fictional narration.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Revue Belge de Philologie et de Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis
ISSN
0035-0818
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Volume of the periodical
95
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
BE - BELGIUM
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
561-574
UT code for WoS article
000468316300006
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