When "The Lie Becomes Truth": Four Historiographic Novels of the Twentieth Century
Description:
This dissertation is an exploration of relationships between fiction and history as illuminated by historiographic fiction in general and the historiographic novel in particular. Here the term historiography is employed particularly in several of its many meanings: as the study of the materials and techniques of history, the study of what it means to be a historian, and the study of the philosophy of history. All of these are comprehended in the larger definition of issues pertaining to the wri…
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Date:
December 1999
Creator:
Detels, Polly Elizabeth