Original scientific paper

Narrative Meliorations of History

Marija Gjorgjieva Dimova ; Filološki fakultet Blaže Koneski, Sveučilište sv. Ćirila i Metoda, Skopje

Abstract

The subject matter of this article is the novel Waterland by British novelist Graham Swift. The interpretation is focused on one of the dominant aspects in the postmodern novel (historiographic metafiction): immanent provocation of the relation between literature/ fiction and history. Waterland offers an affirmation of the main postmodern question of history, that is, of the traditional relation between the two levels of the concept of history (res gestae and historia rerum gestarum). The aim of the interpretation is to identify levels of transgression of the boundaries between history and fiction through their shared narrative aspects.

Keywords

postmodern novel; historiographic metafiction; history-literature relation; narrative

Hrčak ID:

171291

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/171291

Publication date:

12.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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