Studies in Literature and Culture. Volume 16
Ewa Fiutka ISBN: 978-83-8061-366-9 Stron: 240 Format: 220 x 205 mm Rok wydania: 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of abbreviations
Introduction 1. Neo-Victorian Fiction 2. A.S. Byatt: A Critic and a Storyteller 3. Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit: Narrativism, Historical Representation and Historical Experience 4. The Change from Postmodern Historical Uncertainty Towards Other Forms of Mediating the Past (Poetry, Trauma, Experience) 5. The Composition of the Book
Chapter 1: The Narrative Logic of Possession and The Biographer's Tale 1. Narration in History and Fiction 2. History as a Narrative Substance 2.1. The Lack of Certainty about Past Events 2.2. Subjectivity, or the Myth of Objectivity 2.3. Lacunae
Chapter 2: Historical Representation I: Metaphors of a Historian in Byatt's Neo-Victorian Fiction 1. Historical Representation as a Metaphor 2. Metaphors of a Historian 2.1. The Historian as a Detective: White's Theory of Discovery 2.2. Ghostwriting: The Historian as a Ventriloquist and a Spiritualist
Chapter 3: Historical Representation II: Metaphors of History and the Past in Byatt's Neo-Victorian Fiction 1. The Concept of Time 1.1. The Concept of Cyclical History in Possession 1.2. The Ages of Man in The Children's Book 1.3. Intertextuality 2. History as a Spatial Concept 2.1. History as Theatre 2.1.1. The Greek Chorus as a Metaphor for the Victorian Narration Chapters in Possession 2.1.2. The Children's Book: Puppets in the Hands of History 2.2. History as a Container: Wunderkammer, Museum, Exhibition
Chapter 4: Communicative and Cultural Memory in Byatt's Neo-Victorian Fiction 1. Memory, Testimony and Commemoration 2. Cultural Memory 3. Communicative Memory 3.1. Photographs
Chapter 5: Historical Experience: A Truce between History and Literature 1. From Language to Experience 2. Byatt's Neo-Victorian Fiction as Alternative History 3. Historical Experience 4. Sublime Experience 5. Trauma
Conclusion
Works cited
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