The character of truth : historical figures in contemporary fiction /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©1990.
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| Series: | Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=22498 |
Table of Contents:
- Historical figure in Renaissance and Elizabethan fiction
- Historical figure in the Seventeenth Century
- Historical figure under Realism
- Willian Styron and the politics of fiction biography
- Form, style, and the fiction biography
- Novel as alembic
- Photograph becomes a mirror
- Novelist's revenge
- Novelist as necromancer
- Historical figure in speculative fiction blurring the boundaries
- Fiction and the law
- The Public burning on trial.