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Speculative Fictions : Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History by Herb Wyile; ProQuest (Firm) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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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 Hayden White, Mikhail Bakhtin, Fredric Jameson, Linda Hutcheon, and Michel De Certeau, Speculative Fictions examines the nature of these novels' engagement with Canadian history, historiography, and the writing of historical fiction. In t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Herb Wyile; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- ACP - McGill Queen's University Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773569898
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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