The Making of History: A Study of the Literary Forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton in Relation to Eighteenth-century Ideas of History and FictionFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986 - 228 էջ The literary forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton are studied within the context of the eighteenth-century debate about the validity of using literature as a historical source and history as a literary topic. |
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... narrative are all narrated by him . When he returns to Ithaca , he dons a disguise . The forging of the past , then , needs to be seen as one orientation of the general fabrication of fiction . It is easy to see why N. M. Penzer's ...
... narrative are all narrated by him . When he returns to Ithaca , he dons a disguise . The forging of the past , then , needs to be seen as one orientation of the general fabrication of fiction . It is easy to see why N. M. Penzer's ...
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... narrative celebrated Fingal's compassion and mercy ( which for many early readers of Ossian meant an ascendancy over Homer's heartless heroes ) . He gave up the captive Gaul to his suppliant daughter . Ossian's parting words were ...
... narrative celebrated Fingal's compassion and mercy ( which for many early readers of Ossian meant an ascendancy over Homer's heartless heroes ) . He gave up the captive Gaul to his suppliant daughter . Ossian's parting words were ...
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... narrative that could simply exist without any authentication . History had to be made , created . Fingal's description of his ancestors was archetypal . They were the subjects of " the song of bards ” ( p . 44 ) . Ossian's poetry was a ...
... narrative that could simply exist without any authentication . History had to be made , created . Fingal's description of his ancestors was archetypal . They were the subjects of " the song of bards ” ( p . 44 ) . Ossian's poetry was a ...
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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
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