Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the by A. Robinson

By A. Robinson

In recent years controversy has surrounded the narrative flip in background and the old flip in fiction. This ebook clarifies what's at stake, tracing connections among historiography and life-writing, arguing that the demanding situations posed in representing the earlier light up matters that are valuable to all literary narrative.

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