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100	1		_aColavincenzo, Marc _eauthor.
245	1	0	_a"Trading Magic for Fact," Fact for Magic : _bMyth and Mythologizing in Postmodern Canadian Historical Fiction / _cMarc Colavincenzo.
246	3		_aMyth and Mythologizing in Postmodern Canadian Historical Fiction
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2003.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
490	1		_aCross/Cultures ; _v67
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Historical Discourse as Myth -- 2 "Trading Magic for Fact": Postmodern Historical Fiction -- 3 Trading Fact for Magic: Mythologizing History in Postmodern Historical Fiction -- 4 Mythologizing History in Postmodern Canadian Historical Fiction -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
520			_aThis study brings together three major areas of interest - history, postmodern fiction, and myth. Whereas neither history and postmodern fiction nor history and myth are strangers to one another, postmodernism and myth are odd bedfellows. For many critics, postmodern thought with its resistance to metanarratives stands in direct and deliberate contrast to myth with its apparent tendency to explain the world by means of neat, complete narratives. There is a strain of postmodern Canadian historical fiction in which myth actually forms a complement not only to postmodernism's suspicion of master-narratives but also to its privileging of those marginal and at times ignored areas of history. The fourteen works of Canadian fiction considered demonstrate a doubled impulse which at first glance seems contradictory. On the one hand, they go about demythologizing - in the Barthesian sense - various elements of historical discourse, exposing its authority as not simply a natural given but as a construct. This includes the fact that the view of history portrayed in the fiction has been either underrepresented or suppressed by official historiography. On the other hand, the history is then re-mythologized, in that it becomes part of a pre-existing myth, its mythic elements are foregrounded, myth and magic are woven into the narrative, or it is portrayed as extraordinary in some way. The result is an empowering of these histories for the future; they are made larger than life and unforgettable.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aCanadian fiction (English) _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aHistorical fiction, Canadian (English) _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aMyth in literature.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _t"Trading Magic for Fact," Fact for Magic : Myth and Mythologizing in Postmodern Canadian Historical Fiction. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2003 _z9789042009363
830		0	_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
830		0	_aCross/Cultures ; _v67.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004487833
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