The Moral of the Historical Story: Textual Differences in Fact and Fiction

Contesting Veterans’ Identities: Reflections Upon Gender Roles and History in Pat Barker’s Regeneration

“…Nevertheless, Pihlainen (2002) ponders the importance of revisiting the past by means of imagination and seems to approach the essence of Barker's metafictional exercise, as follows:…”

Rereading narrative constructivism

“…On the other hand, White seems to often be too attached to the example of modernist literature to appreciate the inherent strengths that history possesses with regard to representational form precisely as a result of its referential commitment (for more on this, see e.g. Pihlainen 2002Pihlainen , 2009). …”

Amazing but true

“…There is evidence that whether a story is taken to be fictional or not can impact how it is understood. This has been found to affect intermediate levels of comprehension of various elements, such as the significance of details (Hendersen & Clark, 2007), interpretation of references (Pihlainen, 2002), causal relationships (Strange & Leung, 1999), and situations and the perspectives of characters (Graesser, Olde, & Klettke, 2002). Details may be categorized in non-fiction as information, while they may be seen in fiction as abstractions in the service of a higher representation.…”