Add to ORKGGovernor General’s Award-winning author Guy Vanderhaeghe discusses how historical fiction can resurrect the past in such vibrant detail as to make it seem more plausible and satisfying to the reader than a work of history. His own novels, The Englishman’s Boy (1996), and The Last Crossing (2002), explore how history and fiction are used to construct cultural myths, and how masculine identities are easily destabilized by larger political and ideological forces. Vanderhaeghe also discusses his two plays, I Had a Job I Liked. Once. (1992) and Dancock’s Dance (1996), and examines constructions of masculinity and the notion of an antiquated male code of honour.
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Over the past two years Henry Beissel has been invited to more than 20 German (and Polish) universit...
Debates about history and fiction tend to pitch novelist against historian in a battle over who owns...
This article explores the contribution that narrative can make to more mainstream historiography. It...
In this interview, the Australian historical novelist Rohan Wilson discusses the intellectual, aesth...
The relationship between academic history and historical fiction is a subject of great interest to h...
In ‘Interpreting History Through Fiction: Three Writers Discuss their Methods’, creative historical ...
Interview with Danielle Dybbro, Winner of the 2018 James Madison Award for Excellence in Historical ...
In Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy, three modes of representation, oral, visual, and written...
Vanderhaeghe's extensive use of violence and the grotesque is a way of examining disorder; presumabl...
In this interview, Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments and arguments ...
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a novelist, playwright, and a storyteller. She graduated in English and Folklor...
This interview took place at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, on 19th August 2013. Hamilton di...
The participation to a literary festival in Florence gave the interviewer the occasion to meet one o...
In this interview, Jonathan Menezes asks Frank Ankersmit about various aspects of his theory of hist...
This interview with Mr Dan Starer was prompted by recent research on the porosity between fact and f...
Over the past two years Henry Beissel has been invited to more than 20 German (and Polish) universit...
Debates about history and fiction tend to pitch novelist against historian in a battle over who owns...
This article explores the contribution that narrative can make to more mainstream historiography. It...