Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 41 No. 1, 2015.
Original scientific paper
THE FICTIONALIZATION OF HISTORY AND “THE GREAT WAR”
Sibila Petlevski
; Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb
Abstract
This work analyses the methodological issues of inherent in tackling historical structure and the problems related to establishing a dialogue with an extensive and diverse “heritage” of historiographic insights into the Great War. A comparative look into the specifics of meta-fictional storytelling in historiography is of particular interest here, as it is among the different strategies of novelistic interpretation of historical information. Some of the topics we've touched upon in this paper include first-person storytelling in fictional literature and war journals, the fictionalization of history and historization of fictional literature, the status of “intimate history” in literature and in historiographic narration, historiographic fictionalization, the journalistic “faction” within the context of news-entertainment and history-entertainment, the problem of post-war trauma in psychoanalytical anamnesis, first-person storytelling, and fictional literature. The paper includes an analysis of the personal fiction-research procedures related to the topic of the Great War in the Tabu trilogy.
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138985
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Publication date:
30.4.2015.
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