A Star-Shaped Crossroad: From (Counterfactual) Historiography to Historiographic Metafiction
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://conference.uaa.utb.cz/tp2013/FromTheoryToPractice2013.pdf#page=201" target="_blank" >http://conference.uaa.utb.cz/tp2013/FromTheoryToPractice2013.pdf#page=201</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Star-Shaped Crossroad: From (Counterfactual) Historiography to Historiographic Metafiction
Original language description
In the 1970s, Hayden White stirred a heated debate about similarities between historiography and fiction. In his monographs Metahistory (1973) and Tropics of Discourse (1978), he developed a theory that from the discourse perspective, the process of writing a historiographic text and writing fiction is no different as they use the same strategies. Lubomír Doležel, in his Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: Postmodern Stage (2010), reacts to this theory and takes the argument further, claiming that the comparison of historiography and fiction has reached a dead end and needs to be researched from a new perspective - that of the possible worlds theory. The debate between White's and Doležel's theories re-establishes the borderline between historiography and fiction but does not provide a fully satisfying answer when it comes to distinguishing between historiography and specific genres of fiction, such as historiographic fiction. Problems also arise when using the possible worlds theo
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
From Theory to Practice 2013: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Anglophone Studies
ISBN
978-80-7454-450-7
ISSN
1805-9899
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Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
201-212
Publisher name
Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Place of publication
Zlín
Event location
Zlín
Event date
Sep 5, 2013
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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