narrative
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What can historical fiction do that history can’t? from magistra 9 days old
Bavardess has just revealed herself as another historian who either wants to or is actually attempting to write historical fiction rather than ‘straight’ ...
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Why I no longer read historical fiction from magistra 105 days old
[ ... ] form a good narrative. The very skill of successful historical novelists can make the history on which they depend seem thin and unsatisfying ...
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What makes a grand narrative useful? from magistra 384 days old
[ ... ] 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 ...
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What’s the point of narrative history? from magistra 396 days old
[ ... ] 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 ...
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