Imaginary Evidence: The Historical Fiction of Alice Munro
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Description: Essay by Reid Mitchell.
Virtual Conference Reid Michell Essay Writing History / Writing Fiction Imaginary Evidence: The Historical Fiction of Alice Munro espite history's origins in storytelling, narrative has not been the dominant mode in the history profession for quite some time. Academic historians, myself included, usually choose the article or the monograph to present their research, make their arguments, and persuade their readers. When historians do write narrative, they tend to write narrative in the manner of the 19th century. Literary modernism did not become part of the historian's baggage, and the only postmodernism to make its appearance has been not literary but theoretical and heavy-handed-an enemy, one might say, to history and literature alike. Furthermore, when some historians attempt to make their narrative lively, they depart from historical method to badly cliché'd fictional conventions, telling was what their subjects thought or what expressions flashed across their faces, or some other speculation that cannot be buttressed by evidence. Too much historical narrative reads like genre fiction.
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| Page title: | Virtual Conference Reid Michell Essay |
| Keywords: | Allen Ballard, Steven Leibo, Reid Mitchell, William Rainbolt, Richard Hamm, Edward Knoblauch, Historical Fiction, History and Fiction, Alamo, China, African American, Civil War |
| Description: | This is a Virtual Conference on writing historical fiction. The participants are all academic historians who have published both works of history and works of fiction. |
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