TY - BOOK ID - 1687843 TI - Writing history as a prophet : postmodernist innovations of the historical novel PY - 1991 SN - 9027222126 1556194250 9786613424488 9027277605 1283424487 9789027277602 9781283424486 9789027222121 661342448X PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, DB - UniCat KW - 82-31 KW - 82.015.9 KW - 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme KW - Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme KW - 82-31 Roman KW - Roman KW - Fiction KW - Comparative literature KW - Historical fiction KW - History and criticism. KW - ROMAN HISTORIQUE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) KW - HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1687843 AB - This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre.Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. ER -