Special interest in the Victorian age, the 1960s but also WWII. Possession, Angels and Insects. Relationship between real and fiction, past and present, interdependence and sense of ownership between lovers, issue of female creativity. Magic realism; Salman Rushdie. Historiographic metafiction. Magic realism first appeared already after WWI. Part of postmodernism. Combines dream-‐like elements with realism. Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, D.M. Thomas, Kate Atkinson (Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry; Skellig by David Almond).
third-wave feminism. Hélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician S. de Beauvoir `Second Sex' to describe women because she believes them to be an oppressed and marginalized group dominated in every aspect of society. 16. Angela Carter. The evolution of the writer's career 1960s-1990s: from radicalism to magic realist metafiction. Femininity as a constructed notion in A. Carter's short stories, novels and non-fiction. New Woman changing old rules in Nights at the Circus and The Loves of Lady Purple. Angela Carter (7 May 1940 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother
Vidal claims that it was just a fight for money. Washington approved of slavery, dissaproved the french revolution. Burr makes fun of Europeans who came to fight for American independence, De la Fayatte, Jefferson, who had always been considered progressive man is less symphatical than Washington. Drawing these parallels Vidal shows that corruption has always been in the American government. 24.04.2013 Historiografic metafiction as a post-modern genre, in her, Hutcheon (Canadian writer), theorie (historiografie was history is recorded/metafiction fiction about fiction). The recordgin of historical facts and fictions. The techniques have narrative quality. It's a literary genre that denies the traditional reliability concept of history but at the same time attempts to reclaim historical sigunificants. An important feature is blurring the line between history and fiction
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