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History Meets Fiction

Author : Beverley C. Southgate
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317862589
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book History Meets Fiction written by Beverley C. Southgate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands? How do novelists represent historians and history? The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have traditionally been seen as mutually exclusive opposites. However, new hybrid forms of writing – from historical fiction to docudramas to fictionalised biographies – have led to the blurring of boundaries, and given rise to the claim that history itself is just another form of fiction. In his thought-provoking new book, Beverley Southgate untangles this knotty relationship, setting his discussion in a broad historical and philosophical context. Throughout, Southgate invokes a variety of writers to illuminate his arguments, from Dickens and Proust, through Virginia Woolf and Daphne du Maurier, to such contemporary novelists as Tim O’Brien, Penelope Lively, and Graham Swift. Anyone interested in the many meeting points between history and fiction will find this an engaging, accessible and stimulating read.

Fact Meets Fiction

Author : Scholastic Canada, Limited
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780779110667
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Fact Meets Fiction written by Scholastic Canada, Limited and published by . This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fact into Fiction

Author : Lars Ole Sauerberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349212997
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Fact into Fiction written by Lars Ole Sauerberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-04-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Short History of American Literature

Author : William Peterfield Trent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of American Literature written by William Peterfield Trent and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Short History of American Literature Based Upon the Cambridge Histor of American Literature

Author : William Peterfield Trent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of American Literature Based Upon the Cambridge Histor of American Literature written by William Peterfield Trent and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. II

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. II written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of American Literature

Author : William Peterfield Trent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A History of American Literature written by William Peterfield Trent and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge History of American Literature

Author : William Peterfield Trent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1654 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature written by William Peterfield Trent and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge history of American literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1550 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge history of American literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Home

Author : Hazard Adams
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450932
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Home written by Hazard Adams and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-08-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an actual turn-of-the-century anarchist commune on Washington's south Puget Sound as the backdrop, Hazard Adams tells the story of Edward Williams, a present-day history professor and former vice president at nearby State University. As he studies and imagines the lives of those who participated in the commune, Williams is drawn into disputes on his campus over the proposed appointment of a distinguished feminist professor of American studies and an alleged case of sexual harassment.

The Draft

Author : Wil Mara
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466859164
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Draft written by Wil Mara and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's draft time in the National Football League. For high-ranking team executives, this means long days and sleepless nights, endless negotiations, and determining which young men deserve to become millionaires and which do not. Careers will be made with the stroke of a pen, but mistakes are costly. Baltimore Ravens General Manager Jon Sabino has turned a weary, ragtag organization into a gridiron dynamo, culminating in two consecutive Super Bowl victories, and now they're poised to make NFL history with a third consecutive championship. New talent is the last thing on Sabino's mind, so this year's draft will be little more than a formality. Or will it? With less than two weeks until draft day, Sabino receives crushing news---Michael Bell, the team's starting quarterback, has been involved in a season-ending auto accident. Baltimore's two backups cannot possibly fill Bell's cleats, no other available free agents reach Bell's skill level, and the Ravens' volatile owner insists that he wants the third Lombardi Trophy above all else—even if it costs the team down the road. So Sabino is forced to pursue Christian McKinley, the best quarterback prospect to come along in a generation, who will assuredly be taken with the first pick. But that's a task easier said than done, especially when the other general managers will stop at nothing to keep him from winning yet another Super Bowl ring. The San Diego Chargers, who own that pick, are not interested in McKinley but are willing to offer it to the highest bidder. Other teams want it; need it. Now Jon Sabino has to jump into the fray, which the media has dubbed the "McKinley Sweepstakes," and he may find the competition tougher than even he can imagine. It could very well be the make-or-break moment of his career, the fork in the road that leads him and his team either into the history books or back to the tepid hell of mediocrity. And then there's a young man in the Philadelphia projects whose arm is just as good as McKinley's--except that he wants nothing to do with the NFL. He'll have to face an old family secret and bitter legacies if he ever goes pro. But he just might be the salvation Sabino needs. NFL fans will delight in this insider's entry into the general manager's head office, sweat through draft negotiations, strategic alliances, and gamesmanship, and revel in pure NFL glory. The Draft is sports fiction at its best, combining solid insider information and an unmistakable passion for the game with the awesome power of storytelling; a potent mixture that will keep football fans riveted to every page.

The Boys of Summer

Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1597806005
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Boys of Summer written by Richard Cox and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a haunting coming-of-age story set in North Texas against the backdrop of a deadly tornado, and a character-driven, deeply-affecting supernatural thriller. In 1979, a massive tornado devastates the city of Wichita Falls, Texas, leaving scores dead, thousands homeless, and nine-year-old Todd Willis in a coma, fighting for his life. Four years later, Todd awakens to a world that looks the same but feels different in a way he can't quite grasp. For Todd, it's a struggle to separate fact from fiction as he battles lingering hallucinations from his long sleep. The new friends Todd makes in 1983 are fascinated with his experience and become mesmerized by his strange relationship with the world. Together the five boys come of age during a dark, fiery summer where they find first love, betrayal, and a secret so terrible they agree to never speak of it again. But darkness returns to Wichita Falls twenty-five years later, and the boys--now men--are forced to reunite and confront the wounds from their past. When their memories of that childhood summer refuse to align with reality, the friends embark upon a search for truth that will threaten their lives, and transform their understanding of each other--and the world itself--forever.

A State of Play

Author : Steven Fielding
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849669813
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book A State of Play written by Steven Fielding and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A State of Play explores how the British have imagined their politics, from the parliament worship of Anthony Trollope to the cynicism of The Thick of It. In an account that mixes historical with political analysis, Steven Fielding argues that fictional depictions of politics have played an important but insidious part in shaping how the British think about their democracy and have helped ventilate their many frustrations with Westminster. He shows that dramas and fictions have also performed a significant role in the battle of ideas, in a way undreamt of by those who draft party manifestos. The book examines the work of overtly political writers have treated the subject, discussing the novels of H.G. Wells, the comedy series Yes, Minister and the plays of David Hare. However, it also assesses how less obvious sources, such as the films of George Formby, the novels of Agatha Christie, the Just William stories and situation comedies like Steptoe and Son, have reflected on representative democracy. A State of Play is an invaluable, distinctive and engaging guide to a new way of thinking about Britain's political past and present.

Sherman's March in Myth and Memory

Author : Edward Caudill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742550285
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Sherman's March in Myth and Memory written by Edward Caudill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating "March to the Sea" in 1864 burned a swath through the cities and countryside of Georgia and into the history of the American Civil War. As they moved from Atlanta to Savannah--destroying homes, buildings, and crops; killing livestock; and consuming supplies--Sherman and the Union army ignited not only southern property, but also imaginations, in both the North and the South. By the time of the general's death in 1891, when one said "The March," no explanation was required. That remains true today. Legends and myths about Sherman began forming during the March itself, and took more definitive shape in the industrial age in the late-nineteenth century. Sherman's March in Myth and Memory examines the emergence of various myths surrounding one of the most enduring campaigns in the annals of military history. Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown provide a brief overview of Sherman's life and his March, but their focus is on how these myths came about--such as one description of a "60-mile wide path of destruction"--and how legends about Sherman and his campaign have served a variety of interests. Caudill and Ashdown argue that these myths have been employed by groups as disparate as those endorsing the Old South aristocracy and its "Lost Cause," and by others who saw the March as evidence of the superiority of industrialism in modern America over a retreating agrarianism. Sherman's March in Myth and Memory looks at the general's treatment in the press, among historians, on stage and screen, and in literature, from the time of the March to the present day. The authors show us the many ways in which Sherman has been portrayed in the media and popular culture, and how his devastating March has been stamped into our collective memory.

The Perpetual Guest

Author : Barry Schwabsky
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784783269
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Perpetual Guest written by Barry Schwabsky and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with history. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art's present must also account for the ongoing life and changing fortunes of its past. Surveying the art world of recent decades, Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant newer faces-among them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei, Chris Ofili, and Lorna Simpson-but their forebears as well, both near (Jeff Wall, Nancy Spero, Dan Graham, Cindy Sherman) and more distant (Velzquez, Manet, Matisse, and the portraitists of the Renaissance). Schwabsky's rich and subtle contributions illuminate art's present moment in all its complexity: shot through with determinations produced by centuries of interwoven traditions, but no less open-ended for it.

Real Sci-fi

Author : George Ivanoff
Publisher : Sundance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760849491
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Real Sci-fi written by George Ivanoff and published by Sundance Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many things that were once merely the subject of science fiction, such as robots and space travel, are now real. This book explores the ways in which today's science fiction may become tomorrow's fact.

Blue Moon

Author : Wendy Corsi Staub
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062349767
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Blue Moon written by Wendy Corsi Staub and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub returns to Mundy’s Landing—a small town where bygone bloodshed has become big business. Hair neatly braided, hands serenely clasped, eyes closed, the young woman appeared to be sound asleep. But the peaceful tableau was a madman’s handiwork. Beneath the covers, her white nightgown was spattered with blood. At daybreak, a horrified family would discover her corpse tucked into their guest room. The cunning killer would strike again . . . and again . . . before vanishing into the mists of time. A century ago, the Sleeping Beauty Murders terrified picturesque Mundy’s Landing. The victims, like the killer, were never identified. Now, on the hundredth anniversary, the Historical Society’s annual “Mundypalooza” offers a hefty reward for solving the notorious case. Annabelle Bingham, living in one of the three Murder Houses, can’t escape the feeling that her family is being watched—and not just by news crews and amateur sleuths. She’s right. Having unearthed the startling truth behind the horrific crimes, a copycat killer is about to reenact them—beneath the mansard roof of Annabelle’s dream home . . .