A Cracked Construction: Postmodernist Fragmentation and Fusion in McEwan’s Atonement by Christian Gutleben

“…Striving to convey separation and union, fragmentation and fusion, Atonement ultimately illustrates the paradoxical nature of postmodernism’s patchworking both as a metaphor of a traumatic type of bearing after-witness characterised by a series of fractures (in the narrative, temporal and symbolical orders) and as a sign of the syncretic dream of combining Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, humour and tragedy, realism and metatextuality, romance and historical fiction.…”
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The Wild <i>Volksmoeder </i>in the Forest: An Analysis of the Human-Nonhuman Relationship in Dalene Matthee’s <i>Dreamforest</i> (2003) by Delia Rabie

“…This novel concludes her tetralogy of historical fiction novels focusing on the poor white timber community living in the Eastern Cape’s tropical Knysna forest. …”
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A Study on Emotional Healing Efficacy of Fiction for Undergraduate by Chen Su-May Sheih, Pi-Fen Chang Chien

“…The findings showed that romance, realistic fiction, fantasy, martial arts novel, inspirational fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction can provide full process of emotional healing efficacy. …”
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VASSILJEV’S «ANCIENT RUSSIA NOVELS» AS A NEW CYCLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF HISTORICAL PROSE AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM

“…The analysis of the novels «Prince Oleg Prophetic», «Olga, the queen of the Rus» and «Prince Vladimir» demonstrates their author’s conscious refusal to implement the traditional strategies of historical fiction. B. L. Vassiljev created a schematized picture of the Dark Ages, abounding in anachronisms, with an intricate plot unraveling in a conditional chronotope. …”
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Revolution Elsewhere: Soviet Conformist and Non-Conformist Children’s Books of the 1960s and 1970s by Birgitte Beck Pristed

“…Rather than rebel or engage in active conflict, Soviet children of ’68 were encouraged to study representations of revolutionary activism from other times in historical fiction and accounts about the 1917 Revolution and World War II, or elsewhere, be it from the third world or outer space as imagined in adventure novels. …”
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Social and Cultural Aspects of Russian Experimental Medicine During the Reign of Peter I by T. V. Kovaleva

“…The aim of the article is to show medicine as a multifaceted science influenced by social and cultural aspects that determine its structure and national features.Materials and methods. Historical, fiction and intellectual proses are chosen instruments of historical and literary discourses which determine its social and cultural aspects. …”
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Cosmopolitanism, Mobility and Hybridity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by Gül Kurtuluş

“…Detecting divergence in a play that is set in a different country than the one from whose culture its text is nourished, and in a different time that qualifies the text as a piece of historical fiction is a challenge even in the eyes of the playwright’s contemporaries. …”
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THE STRUGGLE OF WOMEN’S CHARACTER AGAINST PATRIARCHAL TRADITION IN QUEEN CHARLOTTE BY TOM VERICA by Afifah Nur Rizki Fauziah, Abd. Hanan EF, Hasbi Assiddiqi

“…This research contributes to feminist literary criticism by demonstrating how historical fiction serves both as a critique of systemic oppression and as a medium for narratives of resistance, reinforcing the ongoing discourse on gender equality and intersectionality in media representation. …”
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Competition and struggle in Ján Kalinčiak’s conception of Romanticism by Marta Fülöpová

“…His version of Romanticism is not based on the fight between good and evil, but on the struggle between two competing visions of the world which in their search for authenticity naturally get into conflict. While his historical fiction is undeniably Romantic, his best known work, Reštavrácia ([County elections], 1860) used to be regarded as a transitional piece bearing elements of Realism. …”
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Motions in Pictures: From Habermas’s Informal Political Sphere to Formal Politics in the Films <i>Footloose</i>, <i>Land and Freedom</i> and <i>The Beguiled</i> by Jane Thomas, Sean Tunney

“…This article analyses three historical fiction films, <i>Footloose, Land and Freedom</i> and <i>The Beguiled</i>, to help illuminate aspects of politics and political theory. …”
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Revolution in Antiquity: The Classicizing Fiction of Naomi Mitchison by Barbara Goff

“…In the 1920s and 1930s, she produced a number of works of historical fiction set in ancient Greece and Rome, which were highly regarded at the time. …”
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Ninon de Lenclos, esprit fort dans la compagnie des hommes ou de la difficulté de concevoir la maître de philosophie by Sophie Houdard

“…But as she had never been presented as a person who is able to own or transmit an autonomous culture, nevertheless, the figure of Aspasie, the female Pericles’master of philosophy, was always recalled by the historiography as a possible, but dangerous, historical fiction. However, if Ninon de Lenclos was known as a person who knows how to build a mixed sociability where it was possible to share and partake, with male partners, frienship, body’s pleasures and spiritual open enjoyments — wit and flesh —, this peculiar sociability was unthinkable as feminine and had to be conceived as a form of masculinity : that’s why Ninon de Lenclos, single woman amongst many men, appears as a sort of « other » male.…”
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Česká historizující próza mezi romantismem a realismem : rekonstrukce historické právní kauzy Henyka z Valdštejna v povídce Karla Sabiny Osudná kniha) by Michal Charypar

“…The development of the romantic model of historical fiction cannot therefore be defined by absolute criteria (like, e.g., the presence / absence of concrete means or techniques), but only by means of relative criteria (clearly higher / lower extent of using a single means or technique, its central / peripheral position in the semantic structure of a text, and so on). 2) The theory mentioned above is applied here on a short-story Osudná kniha. …”
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National cultural significance of poetry of Inner Mongolia poet D. Tserenvanzhil by S. Tsomorlig

“…In earlier times, literature was almost like free poetry and historical fiction, except for the occasional appearance of natural imagery of life, due to the strict demands of partisan political ideology. …”
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‘Ransack the histories’: Gay Men, Liberation and the Politics of Literary Style by Michael G. Cronin

“…Keywords: Gay Men in Irish Culture; Historical Fiction; Jamie O’Neill; Denis Kehoe; ANU Theatre Company …”
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Le théâtre historique pour la jeunesse sous la Restauration et la monarchie de Juillet : propagande royale ou éducation politique ? by Calderone Amélie

“…What was the purpose of these dramatized historical fiction? Were they supposed to teach History, thus supporting a discipline that was progressively taking centre stage in education? …”
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Exploring Figurative Language in the Kite Runner Novel: Unveiling Semantic Depths for a Deeper Narrative Understanding by Dwi Indarti, Nabhan Ali Fikri, Marsandi Manar

“…Thus, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of figurative languages found in one of the great historical fictions.…”
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Konstruování obrazu minulosti zaměřené na dětské adresáty: míšení stylů a žánrů by Jana Hoffmannová

“…Attention is devoted to the fact that in this popularising discourse – probably much more than in scholarly historiography – narration merges with commentary, and historical fiction has a specific use. The selection of topics and historical events is determined witha consideration of young readers, who are transported into history and directly integrated into past events. …”
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Of Slaveholders and Renegades: Semantic Uncertainties in Volodymyr Antonovych’s Conversion to Ukrainianness by Jens Herlth

“…Antonovych as well as his adversaries brought into play various concepts of nationality and national identity, switching quite freely between various frames of references (political thought of the Enlightenment and the Romantic era, contemporary historical fiction, and historiography).   Panowie i renegaci: semantyczne niuanse konwersji Włodzimierza Antonowicza na ukraińskość W artykule opublikowanym w 1862 roku w petersburskim ukraińskojęzycznym dzienniku „Osnova” Włodzimierz Antonowicz, formalnie potomek polskiej rodziny ziemiańskiej z Ukrainy, oświadczył, że od tego momentu będzie siebie uznawał za Ukraińca. …”
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Coronel Delmiro Gouveia, Brazilian (Film) Industry, and World War I in the Sertão by John Maddox

“…In the film 'Coronel Delmiro Gouveia' (1978), Brazilian director Geraldo Sarno uses historical fiction about “'the coronel of coronéis'” to negotiate the limits of government censorship and discuss the domestic and international policies of the military dictatorship, including its relationship to the state cinema enterprise Embrafilme, through a portrayal of a progressive but authoritarian businessman of the 'sertão' who died in Brazil’s first global war of the twentieth century. …”
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