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Journal articles on the topic "Historical romance fiction"
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Levin, David, and Emily Miller Budick. "Fiction and Historical Consciousness. The American Romance Tradition." Journal of American History 76, no. 4 (March 1990): 1231. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2936598.
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Derrick, Scott, and Emily Miller Budick. "Fiction and Historical Consciousness: The American Romance Tradition." American Literature 62, no. 2 (June 1990): 326. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2926925.
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Tiao, Wang. "The Ethics of Romance: Edward Bellamy and American Historical Fiction." Interlitteraria 22, no. 2 (January 16, 2018): 312. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2017.22.2.9.
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The author examines The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays’ Rebellion (1879), a historical novel written by Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) in order to examine the ethics of Romance in the treatment of historical fiction. Edward Bellamy, most famous for his socialist novel, Looking Backwards (1888), himself looks backwards to examine the popular rebellion during the early post-revolutionary American democracy before the US Constitution was established. The striking feature of this novel is the way that it superimposes the romance genre onto political and historical events. Using the ethical criticism of J. Hillis Miller, Martha Nussbaum, Alasdair MacIntyre, and others, the paper examines the romance genre in relation to virtue ethics to analyze the ethical impulse in Bellamy’s historical novel. To what degree does romance – a literary genre that combines stock characters and stereotypical action – open itself up to analysis in terms of the “virtue ethics” of Nussbaum, MacIntyre, and others? To what degree does an analysis of Bellamy’s novel in these terms allow us to understand what I call the “rhetorical ethics” of a critic like Miller? An examination of the Genteel Literary Tradition prevalent at the time of Bellamy’s novel – as it manifests itself in language and historical representation – allows us to see more closely the relations among rhetoric, character and ethics in the historical novel.
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Cronin, Michael G. "‘Ransack the histories’: Gay Men, Liberation and the Politics of Literary Style." Review of Irish Studies in Europe 5, no. 1 (May 25, 2022): 73–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v5i1.2971.
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It is now twenty years since the publication of Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys (2001). O’Neill’s novel was not the first Irish novel to depict same-sex passion, and not even the first Irish gay novel of the post-decriminalisation period. However, it did attain a wider and higher level of recognition among mainstream Irish, and international, readers. This may have been at least partly due to O’Neill’s decision to write a historical romance – a genre which still retains its enduring appeal for readers. By adapting this genre, O’Neill uses fiction to unearth, and imaginatively recreate, an archaeology of same-sex passions between men in revolutionary Ireland. As such, his novel speaks powerfully to a yearning to make the silences of history speak and is motivated by the belief that, as Scott Bravmann puts it in a different context, ‘lesbian and gay historical self-representation – queer fictions of the past – help construct, maintain and contest identities – queer fictions of the present.’ Revisiting O’Neill’s novel now – after two decades of remarkable social change for Ireland’s LGBT communities, and after almost a decade of national commemoration of the revolutionary period – is a timely opportunity to reflect on the relationship between history, fiction and how we imagine sexual liberation.
Keywords: Gay Men in Irish Culture; Historical Fiction; Jamie O’Neill; Denis Kehoe; ANU Theatre Company
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Pérez Rodríguez, Eva. "The Unlikely Heroine beyond Family Trauma: Four Women’s Fictions of the Second World War in Greece." Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá, no. 31 (December 16, 2022): 97–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.35869/afial.v0i31.4299.
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My analysis of Victoria Hislop’s The Island (2005), Leah Fleming’s The Girl under the Olive Tree (2013), Sofka Zinovieff’s The House on Paradise Street (2012), and Brenda Reid’s The House of Dust and Dreams (2010) examines their treatment of the exotic setting of Greece in the specific historical context of World War II, while following the conventions of popular romance or popular women’s fiction. As a consequence of the conflict, the traditional family structure is compromised. This is particularly evident in the case of the female protagonists, heroines who refuse to fall within the traditional happyever-after ending and opt for a fulfilling career, a longfelt vocation, singlehood or simply unusual friendships of their choice. As a result, even in novels categorized as “romances”, the presence of a hero or lover is questioned and redefined. My analysis starts with Victoria Hislop’s The Island, a historical narrative of the leper colony at Spinalonga, around the time of the Second World War. For comparative purposes regarding the treatment of popular fiction elements, Brenda Reid’s The House of Dust and Dreams and Leah Fleming’s The Girl under the Olive Tree are discussed as being more generically romantic. Finally, Sofka Zinovieff’s The House on Paradise Street offers an example of a cohesive, compact combination of political confrontation and popular romance, while at the same time England appears as the counterpoint to the exoticism of Greece.
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Nagy, Ladislav. "Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical Novel." Prague Journal of English Studies 3, no. 1 (September 1, 2014): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2014-0014.
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Abstract This article focuses on Walter Scott’s Waverley and its classification as the founding text of the historical novel by Georg Lukacs. The author attempts to show that Lukacs takes Scott too much at his word and posits Waverley in the tradition of the English historical novel as it developed from Defoe and Fielding, while neglecting the close ties that Waverley has with marginalized genres such as romance. The author also argues that rather than being an expression of class consciousness, Waverley is an attempt to justify a certain change in political attitude, from radicalism to conservatism
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Weinhardt, Marilene. "Guerra dos mascates, crônica dos tempos coloniais de Alencar: um antimodelo do romance histórico oitocentista." e-Letras com Vida: Revista de Estudos Globais — Humanidades, Ciências e Artes 04 (2020): 28–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.53943/elcv.0120_04.
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The novel A guerra dos mascates, published by José de Alencar in two volumes (1873-1874), was considered by the author’s contemporaneous critics as roman à clé and is included in the literary historiography as a minor work. Nonetheless, if read without taking the romantic historical novel as a paradigm, the perception is different. This reading proposes to apprehend the elements of comedy that appear in the narrative, as well as some common procedures in late-nineteenth century historical fiction.
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Abdul Aziz, Sohaimi. "The Secession of Singapore from Malaysia: a Historical Interpretation of the Novel Satu Bumi." Malay Literature 27, no. 1 (June 1, 2014): 53–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.37052/ml.27(1)no3.
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History has often become the inspiration for writers, as it has for Isa Kamari in the case of his novel Satu Bumi ( One Earth ) (1998). What were the historical sources for this author, and how were they employed in his fiction? What was the author’s aim in fictonalizing these historical sources? These are the questions that receive attention in this paper. Using a historical approach and textual analysis, the historical facts found in the novel Satu Bumi and the author’s aims behind fictionalizing them are examined in this study. The study finds that the novel Satu Bumi is based on the history of Malaysia and Singapore, and fictionalizes the historical events using elements of romance and drama. However, even in this romantic and dramatic setting, the historical elements used do not merely serve to record the history of Malaysia and Singapore but are also employed to predict the future of the Malay community in Singapore. It is an alarming state due to the island state’s physical development and a political situation that could be deemed racist, apart from the attitude of the Malay community itself. Keywords: history, historical fiction, Malays, Singapore, Malaysia
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Gullace, Nicoletta F. "A (Very) Open Elite:Downton Abbey, Historical Fiction and America's Romance with the British Aristocracy." Journal of British Cinema and Television 16, no. 1 (January 2019): 9–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2019.0453.
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This article argues that the success of Downton Abbey hinges on the superimposition of progressive values onto the conservative nostalgia of heritage film. By depicting unequal class relations as consensual and allowing a measure of sexual freedom among its characters, Downton creates an alluring Tory past which is nevertheless acceptable to modern viewers. Fans' belief in the historical accuracy of the Downton fantasy and their intense desire for connection with it has left academic historians struggling to make sense of the show. The article draws on the author's experience of participating in audience events designed to promote the programme
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Bianchi, Diana, and Adele D’Arcangelo. "Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market." Linguistics and Literature Studies 3, no. 5 (September 2015): 248–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.13189/lls.2015.030508.
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Jagodzinski, Mallory Diane. "Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1440101084.
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Lewis, Cassandra. "Sunshowers in Winter: A Novel." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1584.
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This is the beginning of a historical novel set in 1960’s Little Rock, Arkansas. The main character, Elsie Robinson, is forced to come home from her life in New York because of the sudden death of her father. She stays to look after her mother. She then meets Freddie, a white man, who somehow feels completely comfortable in her black community. In a time when everything seems to be falling apart, Freddie is a beam of light. If only their relationship weren’t illegal.
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Rosales, Lauren N. ""Dismissed outright": creating a space for contemporary genre fiction within neo-Victorian studies." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6259.
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Neo-Victorian studies is a burgeoning subfield which seeks to examine contemporary representations of the Victorian period. For the last decade, neo-Victorian scholars have offered up definitions of what makes a text “neo-Victorian”; often, this has been via a description of what the neo-Victorian is not. The ‘ruling’ definition—i.e., the definition most consistently repeated—hails from the introduction to Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: “the Neo-Victorian is more than historical fiction set in the nineteenth century. […] texts (literary, filmic, audio/visual) must in some respect be self-consciously engaged with the act of (re)interpretation, (re)discovery and (re)vision concerning the Victorians” (4). This short delineation significantly comes at the expense of historical fiction, which is a move repeated throughout neo-Victorian efforts to define itself. Neo-Victorian studies has largely concerned itself with literary novels, operating with a heavy anxiety that ‘other’ fiction set in the nineteenth century is escapist and nostalgic in the sense that it simply perpetuates problematic past systems of oppression while evoking the fashionable aesthetic trappings of the Victorian. My dissertation argues that contemporary genre fiction, long derided as ‘simply’ escapist in nature, can also be neo-Victorian. In each of my chapters I analyze texts from a specific genre—steampunk, popular romance, detective fiction, and Sherlock Holmes pastiche—in order to offer a basis for investigating genre fiction with a neo-Victorian lens. I analyze the depiction of corsets and feminist protagonists in three steampunk novels, explore the exhibition of unlikely romantic heroines and Romany romantic heroes in Lisa Kleypas’ historical romance series about the Hathaway family, examine representations of class and gender as well as germane social issues in Anne Perry’s William Monk detective series, and highlight the feminist potential of Carole Nelson Douglas’ series of Sherlock Holmes pastiche featuring Irene Adler. Each chapter considers the Victorian period as represented alongside Victorian novels and literary periodicals in order to demonstrate the shape of these neo-Victorian revisions and make the case the genre fiction can be self-conscious despite its lack of metafictional content.
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Waage, Fred. "The Birth Spoon." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. http://amzn.com/1939289572.
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This mystery is set in the early 1980s and based on actual events. A high-school student unearths dark and deadly secrets of his Appalachian community. The explosive consequences forever mark his own life, his family's, and his town's.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1009/thumbnail.jpg
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Almeida, Marcos Vinícius Lima de. "A lógica do espectro: romance histórico, necromancia e o lugar do morto." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21322.
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Under the premise that our history is constituted under the impact of catastrophes, and that in this context, writing a historical novel will never be a neutral gesture, this paper proposes to investigate the historical novel in contemporary Brazilian fiction, from the perspective of theory and literary creation. This work proposes a hypothesis for the hypothesis of the hypothesis of Lukács (2011), Jameson (2007), Perry Anderson (2007), Linda Hutcheon (1991), Esteves (2010) and Weinhardt (2011) and Bastos (2007). the reading of the contemporary historical novel. From two key notions, 1) what will be defined in this work as a spectrum logic, 2) and writing as a burial rite, the central premise of this work is to look at history as a fundamentally necromantic practice. These notions are tested, or developed, from the critical reading of two contemporary works: O marechal de costas, by José Luiz Passos (2016) and De mim já nem se lembra, by Luiz Ruffato (2015). If the sign (sema) is a tomb and the writing of history and the relationship with the past is a kind of burial rite (as Jeanne-Marie Gagnebin asserts, in the wake of Michel de Certeau), which separates the past from the present world of the living dead of the world), the past not properly elaborated, not buried, returns as specter: and haunts and defiles the present. In this sense, it is possible to read the contemporary historical novel as a kind of attempt to burial the specters of the past that haunt the present. In the practical section, this work presents a novel, a historical fiction, freely inspired by the figure of Januário Garcia Leal
Sob a premissa que nossa história se constitui sob impacto de catástrofes, e que, nesse contexto, escrever um romance histórico nunca será um gesto neutro, esse trabalho se propõe a investigar o romance histórico na ficção contemporânea brasileira, da perspectiva da teoria e da criação literária. Sem abandonar totalmente as concepções de Lukács, (2011), Jameson (2007), Perry Anderson (2007), Linda Hutcheon (1991), Esteves (2010) e Weinhardt (2011) e Bastos (2007), esse trabalho propõe uma hipótese para a leitura do romance histórico contemporâneo. A partir de duas noções chave, 1) aquilo que será definido nesse trabalho como lógica do espectro, 2) e a escrita enquanto rito de sepultamento, a premissa central deste trabalho é olhar para a história enquanto prática fundamentalmente necromante. Essas noções são testadas, ou desenvolvidas, a partir da leitura crítica de duas obras contemporâneas: O Marechal de costas, de José Luiz Passos (2016) e De mim já nem se lembra, de Luiz Ruffato (2015). Se o signo (séma) é um túmulo e a escrita da história e a relação com o passado uma espécie de rito de sepultamento (como afirma Jeanne-Marie Gagnebin, na esteira de Michel de Certeau), que separa o passado do presente (o mundo dos mortos do mundo vivos), o passado não devidamente elaborado, não enterrado, retorna como espectro: e assombra e contamina o presente. Nesse sentido, é possível ler o romance histórico contemporâneo como uma espécie de tentativa de sepultamento dos espectros do passado que assombram o presente. Na seção prática, esse trabalho apresenta um romance, uma ficção histórica, livremente inspirada da figura de Januário Garcia Leal
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Hughes, Helen Muriel. "Changes in historical romance, 1890s to the 1980s : the development of the genre from Stanley Weyman to Georgette Heyer and her successors." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4224.
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Buitendach, Samantha Angelique. "Selling translation rights in trade publishing : case studies of Dutch translations of Afrikaans fiction in the Netherlands and Belgium." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66256.
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The reading and buying market for Afrikaans fiction is limited due to historical and economical reasons. It can thus be argued that in order to expand the market for South African Afrikaans trade publishers and authors' novels, a work needs to be translated via the selling of translation rights with the assistance of the publisher or literary agents, into a language that has similar needs in terms of cultural consumption, for example book reading culture. Due to the colonial influence of the Dutch on South African culture and the development of Afrikaans, this study explores the selling of translation rights of Afrikaans fiction to trade publishers in The Netherlands and Belgium. The polystem theory is also used to illustrate the movement of languages from a peripheral position to semi-peripheral and central position within a global literary polysystem. A qualitative and exploratory research design is used. Secondary research in the form of a literature review combines theoretical information, clarifies terms and provides context from which primary research develops. In terms of primary research, interviews with key informants in the Belgian, Netherlands and South African publishing industry were conducted. Case studies of South African crime author Deon Meyer, and historical romance author Irma Joubert provide in-depth analysis of success factors, process and factors that influenced the selling of subsidiary rights to Dutch trade publishers. Lastly, visibility and discoverability of Afrikaans fiction on an international rights trading platform, as well as interaction amongst South African and foreign publishers were observed, at the largest book rights fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair. The findings of this study provide practical information and act as reference guide to role players in the publishing industry, including authors, trade publishers and literary agents. Recommendations for best practice in the selling of subsidiary rights are included, as well as initiatives for further research, experimentation, investment and development of the selling of subsidiary rights to European trade publishers to ultimately grow the Afrikaans fiction book buying and reading markets.Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Brook, Madeleine E. "Popular history and fiction : the myth of August the Strong in German literature, art, and media." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cb7df46e-ab52-4f27-a084-41d7fab5b54e.
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This thesis concerns the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses that that myth is put to in a number of periods and differing régimes. Its case study is the popular myth of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, as a man of extraordinary sexual prowess and the ruler over a magnificent, but frivolous, court in Dresden. It examines the origins of this myth in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and its development up to the twenty-first century in German history writing, fiction, art, and media. The image August created for himself in the art, literature, and festivities of his court as an ideal ruler of extremely broad cultural and intellectual interests and high political ambitions and abilities linked him closely with eighteenth-century notions of galanterie. This narrowed the scope of his image later, especially as nineteenth-century historians selected fictional sources and interpreted them as historical sources to present August as an immoral political failure. Although nineteenth-century popular writers exhibited a more varied response to August’s historical role, the negative historiography continued to resonate in later history writing. Ironically, the myth of August the Strong represented an opportunity in the GDR in creating and fostering a sense of identity, first as a socialist state with historical and cultural links to the east, and then by examining Prusso-Saxon history as a uniquely (East) German issue. Finally, the thesis examines the practice of historical re-enactment as it is currently employed in a number of variations on German TV and in literature, and its impact on historical knowledge. The thesis concludes that, while narrative forms are necessary to history and fiction, and fiction is a necessary part of presenting history, inconsistent combinations of the two can undermine the projects of both.
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Sakai, Luiz Guilherme Fernandes da Costa. "Denegação e desidentidade: a metaficção historiográfica em Nove noites, de Bernardo Carvalho." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14725.
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This study discusses the identity construction and interpellation in Brazilian contemporary literature through historical novel and historiographical metafiction, concepts studied by Györg Lukács and Linda Hutcheon, respectively. These two subgenres reveal a relation that is different from the truthful events in which the novel is based. The historical novel, emerged in 19th century, uses them to attest their fictional verisimilitude, and in the national context, it has joined the taskwork to build a Brazilian identity. The historiographical metafiction, which emerged in the second half of 20th century, uses the truthful events to question, destabilize and rewrite them. Nove noites, from the author Bernardo Carvalho, gets close to this second subgenre. However, a survey of Carvalho s critical fortune has indicated a supposed inverisimilitude trace in his literary production; this discovery questions not only the historical speech, but also the fiction itself. From this starting point, our study is going to investigate, especially in the chosen novel, the bounds between fiction and reality (linked to history) and identity and non-identity in a dialog with the historical novel and the historiographical metafiction. Presenting also Carvalho s critical production, it s evident in this research that he appreciates an experimental and inventive fiction, and denies trends and common sense in relation to literature. Therefore, this research challenges the hypothesis that, by one side, Nove noites has some historiographical metafiction characteristics and points out to a non-identity dimension, concept used by Italo Moriconi to define the crisis in which the Latin-American thought has been facing in this globalized scenery. In the other hand, when he destabilizes his own construction of sense, he overacts the subgenre in which he was primarily associated and strengthen, in another level, the position the writer registers in this critical texts
Este estudo discute a questão da construção e interpelação da identidade na literatura contemporânea brasileira pela via do romance histórico e da metaficção historiográfica, estudados por Györg Lukács e Linda Hutcheon, respectivamente. Essas duas vertentes do gênero literário romance revelam uma díspar relação com os acontecimentos verídicos de que se apropriam. O romance histórico, surgido no século XIX, utiliza-os para atestar a sua verossimilhança ficcional e, no contexto nacional, aliou-se à empreitada de formar uma identidade aos brasileiros. Ao passo que a metaficção historiográfica, que surgiu já na segunda metade do século XX, vale-se deles para questioná-los, desestabilizá-los e reescrevê-los. Nove noites, do ficcionista e crítico Bernardo Carvalho, aproxima-se dessa segunda vertente. Contudo, um levantamento da fortuna crítica desse escritor indicou um traço supostamente inverossímil em sua produção literária, que põe em xeque o sentido não apenas do discurso histórico, mas também da própria ficção. É partindo disso que este estudo objetiva investigar as fronteiras entre ficção e realidade (atrelada à história) e identidade e desidentidade em diálogo com o romance histórico e com a metaficção historiográfica. Apresentando também sua produção crítica, torna-se patente, nesta pesquisa, que Carvalho valoriza uma ficção experimental, inventiva, e refuta modismos e lugares-comuns em relação à literatura. Por isso, este trabalho coloca à prova a hipótese de que, por um lado, Nove noites, possuidor de características da metaficção historiográfica, ilustra e aponta para a dimensão da desidentidade, termo utilizado por Italo Moriconi para definir a crise pela qual o pensamento latino-americano tem passado no cenário globalizado. Por outro, o romance de Bernardo Carvalho, ao desestabilizar sua própria construção de sentido, extrapola a vertente a que inicialmente se associa, reforçando, em outro nível, o posicionamento que o escritor registra em seus textos críticos
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Biancato, Adriana Aparecida. "A escrita híbrida de História e Ficção de María Rosa Lojo – Amores Insólitos de nuestra historia (2001) – a revisitação literária de encontros históricos inusitados." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, 2018. http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/4138.
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Based upon the hybrid history and fiction narratives, as possibilities of reinterpreting the past, we proposed a research that aimed at establishing possible approximations among a series of historical short stories selected from the book Amores Insólitos de nuestra historia (2001), by María Rosa Lojo, with the most recent theoretical approach about the mediation contemporary historical novel, which reveals the mixture of a-critical modalities - the classical and the traditional - with deconstructionist aspects – historical novels of Latin American and historiographic metafictions. In the short stories, as well as in the novels of the most recent modality, we saw a hybrid plot that Fleck (2017) classifies as being a "mediator" between traditionalism and the Latin American criticism / deconstructionism. From the point of view of Lojo's past (2001), we intend to highlight the conquest and the settlement of America through her short narratives, which privileges the expression of excluded voices, as they are not considered by the hegemonic history perspective and which, in many fictional narratives, the Argentinean identity is portrayed under the perspective of the unusual love of female protagonists. This way, we reveal about the possible actions of literature in the face of this silencing, especially, when it comes to the female voice in historiographical reports, with emphasis on the perspectives of the past recorded in the annals of history and reinterpreted by fiction. The corpus that served as the basis for this study and analysis are compound of four short stories from the selected work, being: “La historia que Ruy Díaz no escribió” (p. 45-64), “El Maestro y la Reina de las Amazonas” (p. 127-145), “Amar a un hombre feo” (p. 191-213), and “Otra historia del Guerrero y de la Cautiva” (p. 215-245). Furthermore, as inserted in studies proposals of hybrid genres of history and fiction, carried by the Research Group "Reinterpreting the past in America: processes of reading, writing and translation of hybrid genres of history and fiction - pathways to decolonization", we highlight how the characters are represented on the historical extraction of Lojo's short stories, and, we point out at the mediating aspects that constitute these narratives. The theoretical basis that allowed us to establish the relationship between the hybrid historical novel and historical short tale are anchored in studies by Aínsa (1991), Menton (1993), Fernández Prieto (2003), Esteves (2010), Fleck (2011; 2017), among others.
Com base nas narrativas híbridas de história e ficção como possibilidades de releitura do passado, a pesquisa efetuada procurou estabelecer as aproximações possíveis entre uma série de contos históricos selecionados da obra Amores Insólitos de nuestra historia (2001), de María Rosa Lojo, com os pressupostos teóricos mais recentes sobre o gênero romance histórico contemporâneo de mediação, o qual revela a mescla de aspectos das modalidades acríticas – clássica e tradicional – com os aspectos daquelas mais desconstrucionistas – novos romances históricos latino-americanos e metaficções historiográficas. Nos contos, assim como nos romances da modalidade mais recente, vimos uma escrita híbrida que Fleck (2017) classifica como “mediadora” entre o tradicionalismo e o criticismo/desconstrucionismo latino-americano. Sob a ótica da releitura do passado de Lojo (2001), evidenciamos a conquista e povoação da América por meio de narrativas curtas que privilegiam a expressão das vozes excluídas, que não foram consideradas pela história hegemônica e que, em muitas narrativas ficcionais, são as protagonistas dos amores insólitos retratados na construção da própria identidade argentina. Dessa maneira, revelamos as possíveis ações da literatura frente a este silenciamento, principalmente, da voz feminina nos relatos historiográficos, com ênfase às perspectivas do passado registradas nos anais da história e ressignificadas pela ficção. O corpus que serviu de base para o estudo parte da análise de quatro contos da obra selecionada: “La historia que Ruy Díaz no escribió” (p. 45-64), “El Maestro y la Reina de las Amazonas” (p. 127-145), “Amar a un hombre feo” (p. 191-213) e “Otra historia del Guerrero y de la Cautiva” (p. 215-245). Desse modo, inseridos nas propostas dos estudos sobre gêneros híbridos de história e ficção, impulsionados pelo Grupo de Pesquisa “Ressignificações do passado na América: processos de leitura, escrita e tradução de gêneros híbridos de história e ficção – vias para a descolonização”, evidenciamos como se dá a representação das personagens de extração histórica na contística de Lojo e, especificamos os aspectos mediadores que constituem essas narrativas. Os pressupostos teóricos que nos permitiram estabelecer a relação entre os gêneros híbridos romance histórico e conto histórico estão ancorados em estudos de Aínsa (1991), Menton (1993), Fernández Prieto (2003), Esteves (2010), Fleck (2011; 2017), entre outros.
Books on the topic "Historical romance fiction"
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Fletcher, Lisa. Historical romance fiction: Heterosexuality and perfomativity. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2007.
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Budick, E. Miller. Fiction and historical consciousness: The American romance tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
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Dekker, George. The American historical romance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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Anthony, Trollope. La Vendée: An historical romance. London: Trollope Society, 1998.
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The American historical romance. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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Sabatini, Rafael. Bellarion Illustrated: Fiction, Historical, Romance. Independently Published, 2021.
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Sauer, Elizabeth. "Emasculating Romance: Historical Fiction in the Protectorate." In Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570–1640, 195–213. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09177-2_11.
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Ficke, Sarah H. "House, home and husband in historical romance fiction." In The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love, 139–49. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003022343-11.
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McAlister, Jodi. "This Modern Love: The Virgin Heroine in Historical Romance Fiction." In The Consummate Virgin, 131–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55004-2_6.
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Holterhoff, Kate. "Picturing the Past in Robert Louis Stevenson's Historical Romances." In Illustration in Fin-de-Siècle Transatlantic Romance Fiction, 23–54. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003017684-2.
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Burge, Amy. "Do knights still rescue damsels in distress?: Reimagining the medieval in Mills & Boon historical romance." In The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction, 95–114. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137283382_6.
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Taylor-Pirie, Emilie. "Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze." In Empire Under the Microscope, 131–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3_4.
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AbstractIn this chapter, Taylor-Pirie traces the cultural encounters between the parasitologist and the scientific detective in the medico-popular imagination, revealing how such meetings helped to embed the figure of the doctor-detective in public understandings of science. Parasitologists like Ronald Ross and David Bruce were routinely reported in newspapers using detective fiction’s most famous archetype: Sherlock Holmes, a frame of reference that blurred the boundaries between romance and reality. Recognising the continued cultural currency of Holmesian detection in clinical and diagnostic medicine, she re-immerses the ‘great detective’ and his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, in the literary-historical contexts of the fin de siècle, demonstrating how material and rhetorical entanglements between criminality, tropical medicine, and empire constructed the microscopic world as new kind of colonial encounter.
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Taylor-Pirie, Emilie. "The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology." In Empire Under the Microscope, 37–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3_2.
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AbstractIn this chapter Taylor-Pirie examines how parasitologists invoked myths of British nationhood in their professional self-fashioning to frame themselves as knights of science fighting on behalf of Imperial Britain. Analysing scientific lectures, political speeches, letter correspondence, obituaries, medical biographies, and journalistic essays, she draws attention to the prominence of Arthurian legend and Greco-Roman mythology in conceptualisations of parasitology, arguing that such literary-linguistic practices sought to reimagine the relationship between medicine and empire by adapting historical and poetic models of chivalry. In this way, individual researchers were lionised as national heroes and their research framed as labour that could command the longevity of legendary stories like those recounted in Homeric poems and medieval romance. In acclimatisation debates, the tropics were frequently conceptualised in relation to the Greek Underworld, a suite of references that together with dragon slaying and the quest narrative helped to position parasitology as a type of ‘crusading fiction’ in the context of the Victorian medieval revival.
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Tidwell, Christy. "“A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance." In Creatural Fictions, 151–71. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_8.
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Howell, Naomi. "Literary Tombs and Archaeological Knowledge in the Twelfth-Century ‘Romances of Antiquity’." In Bioarchaeology and Social Theory, 71–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03956-0_3.
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AbstractThis chapter explores intertextual and intermedial encounters between imaginative literature and archaeological knowledge in Western Europe in the second half of the twelfth century. Several of the popular ‘romans d’antiquités’ from this period, such as the anonymous Roman d’Eneas (c. 1160), Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie (c. 1165), and Heinrich von Veldeke’s Eneit (1170–1788), feature elaborate ekphrastic descriptions of the tombs of legendary heroes and warriors. Although the romances of antiquity are works of fiction, their descriptions of ancient burial practices reflect the influence of written accounts of actual tomb openings and exhumations in the preceding century. Thus, the description of the burial of Pallas in the Roman d’Eneas is partly modeled on the chronicler William of Malmesbury’s account of the discovery of the ‘real’ tomb of Pallas in Rome, c. 1045. Similarly, in the Roman de Troie, the tomb of Hector with its distinctive enthroned burial is based in part on accounts of the opening of the tomb of Charlemagne by Otto III in the year 1000. Reading these romances alongside their archaeological intertexts sheds new light on the complex historical awareness of these literary works and the interpretative communities that received them.
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Taylor-Pirie, Emilie. "Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire." In Empire Under the Microscope, 1–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3_1.
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AbstractIn this introduction, Taylor-Pirie appraises the intersections of the ‘imaginative architecture of science and empire’ by examining how, as a fledging medical discipline at the fin de siècle, parasitology entered into significant encounters and exchanges with the literary and historical imagination. Introducing readers to Nobel Prize–winning parasitologist Ronald Ross (1857–1932), Taylor-Pirie lays the foundations for the rest of the book by examining how forms such as poetry and biography, genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction, and modes such as adventure and the Gothic together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. In addition to considering the contemporaneous public understanding of science, she also explores how parasitologists were often engaged in writing their own histories of the discipline, a practice that led to a predominantly white, predominantly male understanding of science that finds a legacy in gender disparities in STEM and biases in popular histories of medicine in favour of a mode of ‘heroic biography’. She provides a brief critical overview of the field of literature and science and places her methodology and the field in the context of contemporary topics like the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and the heritage culture wars.
Conference papers on the topic "Historical romance fiction"
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Teodorescu, Camelia. "CULTURAL-HISTORICAL TOURISM OR FICTION TOURISM IN ROMANIA? CASE STUDY: VLAD THE IMPALER OR DRACULA." In 4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM2017. Stef92 Technology, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2017/14/s04.024.
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