The Real, the True, and the Told Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / Eric L. Berlatsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative series.

Theory and interpretation of narrative series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Historical fiction--History and criticism.

Historical fiction.

Spiegelman, Art--Criticism and interpretation.

Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.

Swift, Graham, 1949---Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 250 p. :) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2011.

Contents:

"Memory as forgetting": historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-236) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8142-8018-8

0-8142-7086-7

OCLC:

868220144