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Title: JARRING WITNESSES
MODERN FICTION AND THE REPRESENTATION OF HISTORY
By: Professor Robert Holton
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0745012833
ISBN 13: 9780745012834
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Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 29 February, 1996
Series: Postmodern Theory
Pages: 304
Description: A study of the relationship between narrative and history from the late-19th century to the present day. The book reconsiders the terms of modernist narrative and modernist attitudes to history, and offers a theoretical engagement with the problems of the historiography as they affected writers.
Synopsis: A study of the relationship between narrative and history from the late-19th century to the present day. The book reconsiders the terms of modernist narrative and modernist attitudes to history, focusing on the fiction of Faulkner, Ford, Conrad, Pynchon and black American writers. It also offers a theoretical engagement with the problems of the historiography as they affected the writers concerned. The theoretical argument is illustrated with examples from well-known texts.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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