Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction”
This paper takes as a case in point an influential essay by Hugh MacLennan, a contemporary of cultural thinkers Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye, who also elaborated theories on national culture, so as to engage with the unstable, even porous boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, as well as...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | This paper takes as a case in point an influential essay by Hugh MacLennan, a contemporary of cultural thinkers Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye, who also elaborated theories on national culture, so as to engage with the unstable, even porous boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, as well as the slippery nature of historical discourse caught in the interstices of positivist science and Aristotelian drama. |
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