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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Auteur principal: Dodeman, André
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Publié: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2022
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_8575 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.8575 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.8575 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/8575 2022-02-15T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dt1o https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction” Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Dodeman, André 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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description 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.
author Dodeman, André
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Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction”
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title Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction”
title_short Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction”
title_full Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction”
title_fullStr Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction”
title_full_unstemmed Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction”
title_sort reassessing genres in hugh maclennan’s “the changed functions of fiction and non-fiction”
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