| Autor: |
Quentin Deluermoz, Pierre Singaravélou |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| DOI: |
10.12987/yale/9780300227543.003.0004 |
| Popis: |
This chapter grasps the current state of counterfactual history by examining uchronia in its more explicitly literary sense. It explains how the what-if history and revisions of the past spontaneously bring to mind H. G. Wells's famous time machine and the epigraph quoted from William S. Burroughs's The Place of Dead Roads that indicates how widely accepted this type of fictional voyage has become. If uchronia is defined by its playful nature, it must also be noted that it is a literary form with its own set of techniques that cannot be ignored. The chapter talks about work of fiction that is based on the principle of the divergence of a historical event that can take various forms and operate in different registers. It emphasizes the importance of guarding against overly rigid definitions and boundaries between genres when approaching a literary world full of surprising contrasts. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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