From the Civil War to the Apocalypse

Auteur: Parrish, Timothy
Editeur: University of Massachusetts Press
Why don't we read novels as if they were histories and histories as if they were novels? Postmodern theorists have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction. This work reconsiders the relationship between history and fiction in the context of postmodernism.

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Why don't we read novels as if they were histories and histories as if they were novels? Postmodern theorists have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction. This work reconsiders the relationship between history and fiction in the context of postmodernism.
ISBN / EAN 9781558496279
Auteur Parrish, Timothy
Editeur University of Massachusetts Press