History and Fiction : Writers, their research, worlds and stories / Gillian, Polack

Public ISBD Titre : History and Fiction : Writers, their research, worlds and stories Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Gillian, Polack, Auteur Editeur : Germany : Peter lang Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 191 p Format : 6.2 x 0.8 x 9.2 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-3-0343-1981-2 Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 823 Fiction Résumé : Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores the nature of the author’s relationship with history and fiction – often using writers’ own words – as well as the role history plays in fiction. Focusing on genre fiction, this study considers key issues in the relationship between history and fiction, such as how writers contextualise the history they use in their fiction and how they incorporate historical research. The book also addresses the related topic of world building using history, discussing the connections between the science fiction writers’ notion of world building and the scholarly understanding of story space and explaining the mechanics of constructing the world of the novel. This book places the writing of fiction into a wider framework of history and writing and encourages dialogue between writers and historians. History and Fiction : Writers, their research, worlds and stories [texte imprimé] / Gillian, Polack, Auteur . - Germany : Peter lang, 2016 . - 191 p ; 6.2 x 0.8 x 9.2. ISBN : 978-3-0343-1981-2 Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 823 Fiction Résumé : Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores the nature of the author’s relationship with history and fiction – often using writers’ own words – as well as the role history plays in fiction. Focusing on genre fiction, this study considers key issues in the relationship between history and fiction, such as how writers contextualise the history they use in their fiction and how they incorporate historical research. The book also addresses the related topic of world building using history, discussing the connections between the science fiction writers’ notion of world building and the scholarly understanding of story space and explaining the mechanics of constructing the world of the novel. This book places the writing of fiction into a wider framework of history and writing and encourages dialogue between writers and historians.

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