Writing History as a Prophet: Postmodernist innovations of the historical novel
Elisabeth Wesseling
[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 26] 1991. ix, 218 pp.
Elisabeth Wesseling
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabeth Wesseling plays a role.
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Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
Articles
2023 Chapter 2. Transcorporeality in 21st-century mermaid tales Children's Cultures after Childhood, Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna and Macarena García-González (eds.), pp. 20–34 | Chapter
This chapter takes its cue from the dominant presence of the mermaid trope in 21st-century media culture. It opens with a sampling of contemporary mermaid figurations, which are driven by the desire to break out of the Romantic paradigm as shaped by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid… read more
1997 3.1.3 Historical Fiction: Utopia in History International Postmodernism: Theory and literary practice, Bertens, Hans and Douwe W. Fokkema † (eds.), pp. 203 ff. | Article
1996 Holier Than Thou: Literature, Science and the Empirical Turn The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary studies in a changing world, Hendrix, Harald, Joost J. Kloek, Sophie Levie and Willie van Peer (eds.), pp. 301 ff. | Article