[ ... ] based on my own narrative imagination. These are minor characters, it may not matter that I can get no hold on them. But I worry that some ... more
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narrative
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What can historical fiction do that history can’t?
@ 2009-11-14 – 22:03:52
Bavardess has just revealed herself as another historian who either wants to or is actually attempting to write historical fiction rather than ‘straight’ … more -
Why I no longer read historical fiction
@ 2009-08-10 – 18:50:35
[ ... ] form a good narrative. The very skill of successful historical novelists can make the history on which they depend seem thin and unsatisfying ... more -
What makes a grand narrative useful?
@ 2008-11-04 – 23:03:45
[ ... ] a good grand narrative? In my view, a good/useful grand narrative (in the sense of an outline ‘story’ of what happened in a period) has three ... more -
What’s the point of narrative history?
@ 2008-10-23 – 12:24:50
[ ... ] over the lack of narrative histories for the period. This got me thinking more generally about the purposes of narrative history and why it’s often ... more
