Speculative fictions : contemporary Canadian novelists and the writing of history / Herb Wyile.

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Wyile, Herb, 1961- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 316 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780773569898
0773569898
1282860194
9781282860193
9786612860195
6612860197

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Speculative fictions.DDC classification:

C813/.08109054

LOC classification:

PS8191.H5 W94 2002eb

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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.

Review: "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.

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"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.

English.

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