8The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles PDF

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Postmodernism, Spring 2016, Moorwood...

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Historiographic Metafiction Hutchins says that it is a part of postmodernism that is hugely interesting. "In most of the critical work, it is narrative . . . that has usually been t focus of attention. Historiographic metafiction . . . literature, history, t . incorporates all three of these domains . . . fiction as human constr is made the grounds for its rethinking and reworking of the forms and contents of the past." Metafiction means fiction that talks about fiction, and actively reveals its st fictional and not true. It is beyond fiction. Historiographic means it is a representation of history. It can be about history This interrogates the grounds upon which claims may be made It goes a step beyond historical fiction. Historical Fiction can be something where history and fiction are combined meticulous research on a particular major event in history. A novel is then w closely as possible on those events to bring them to life; a coherent represe of a time in history no longer directly accessible to us. The key difference between the two is that historical fiction still takes idea that there is a more or less objective history upon which to base history, and notions we have about it. It is valuable because it brings things. Historiographic metafiction Instead of taking this historical record and jumping off from it, it inter it. History exists, but is a human construct, ultimately based on interpretations that experts have made of sources. Thus, it is interest because it varies history as text, and literature as text, uses their text stasis to comment on both of them. It is a symbiotic relationship; it is not the novel destroying history. Th together. Deconstruction and construction of history Dates IF this texts is playing with history as human construct, and th stable, what then is the purpose on insisting on specific mome history. Could be a pastiche. Parody mocks its object. Pastiche is so c appearance r technique to what it may be critiquing that it can much celebration as it is critique. In this, his novels to history i irony to history, but also a celebration to history. This book wo nothing without history....