The real, the true, and the told : postmodern historical narrative and the ethics of representation / Eric L. Berlatsky.

• "Memory as forgetting": historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present: history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now": historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true": metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories": truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.

Ämnesord

Postmodernism (litteratur)  (sao)

Postmodernism (Literature)  (LCSH)

Historiography.  (LCSH)

Historical fiction  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

History  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Historiska romaner  -- historia (sao)

Postmodernism (Literature)  (LCSH)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Personnamn

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

Swift, Graham, 1949-

Rushdie, Salman, 1947-

Spiegelman, Art

Klassifikation

PN3441 (LCC)

809.3/81 (DDC)