Postmodernist Restoration of Historical Fiction in the Novels of John Fowles and Umberto Eco

Vol-4 | Issue-03 | March 2019 | Published Online: 13 March 2019    PDF ( 194 KB )
Author(s)
Dr. Rajtinder Singh Jhanji 1

1Principal, A.S. College, Khanna

Abstract

This paper covers the idea how postmodernist portrayals of history, theoretical and fictional, see history as a story talk lacking authenticity, and how the past remains basically a blocked off element significantly after steady endeavors with respect to the historians to speak of it. It follows how the idea of history as a goal, honest record of the past has been supplanted by the view that it is a subjective construction of the past. This adjustment in the origination of history proves progress of some early historians and writers, and the postmodern theoreticians and philosophers of history.

Keywords
Fiction, novel, history, post modernism, etc.
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