| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 316 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
History, theory, and the contemporary Canadian historical novel -- Historical sites -- The content of the form : textual strategies -- Speculating in fiction : commodity culture and the crisis of historicity -- Period piece. |
| Summary |
"Herb Wyile provides a comparative analysis of the historical concerns and textual strategies of twenty novels published since the appearance of Rudy Wiebe's groundbreaking The Temptations of Big Bear in 1973. Drawing on the work of theorists and critics such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Fredric Jameson, and Linda Hutcheon, Speculative Fictions examines the nature of these novels' engagement with Canadian history, historiography, and the writing of historical fiction. Wyile concludes that the writing of history in English-Canadian fiction over the last thirty years makes a substantial contribution to a revisioning of history and to a postcolonial renegotiation of Canadian society"--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historical fiction, Canadian -- History and criticism.
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Historical fiction, Canadian. |
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Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Canadian fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Novelists, Canadian -- 20th century.
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Novelists, Canadian. |
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Historical fiction, Canadian (English) -- History and criticism. |
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Canadian fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism. |
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Novelists, Canadian (English) -- 20th century. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wyile, Herb, 1961- Speculative fictions. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002 0773523154 (DLC) 2002437297 (OCoLC)47948054 |
| ISBN |
9780773569898 (electronic book) |
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0773569898 (electronic book) |
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9780773523159 |
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0773523154 |
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