(Re)visions of history in language and fiction. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Revisions of history in language and fiction
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dorota Guttfeld, Monika Linke and Agnieszka Sowinska.
• Editors: Guttfeld, Dorota; Linke, Monika; Sowińska, Agnieszka
• Contents: Table of contents; introduction; editing the history of the american revolution; revisions of history; revisioning the ideology of anti-conquest; the witch's story; fire island; the female relations to the grand narratives of history in the fictions of margaret laurence and alice munro; paths for understanding 'kanata' in survival by margaret atwood; on trauma; out-with, venice, and dislocation; rewriting lives, retelling stories; the eastern and western perception of the soviet union; re-evaluation of the past in electronic discourse; the sarmatian cultural turn in 21st-century poland. Revision of gender stereotypes in selected women's perfume commercialshistorical references as arguments in jerzy buzek's selected speeches; revision of values in the us presidents' state of the union addresses (2001-2010); battlestar galactica as a reflection of post-9/11 anxieties; auster's alternative history; antipodes of history?; time-traveling to historical past in children's fiction; what if? re-imagining the jewish history; it's elementary, my sear o'lochainn; history and story in the harry potter series.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 384 pages)
• Subjects: 809.381; Literature & literary studies; Historiography; Historical fiction; Fiction genres; Historical fiction -- History and criticism; History in literature; Literature and history; FICTION -- General; Historical fiction; Historiography; Historiography; Interdisciplinary studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443846806; 1443846805
• Related ISBNs: 9781443840200; 1443840203
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.