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Here Englishness is mainly reflected in the interaction between history and myth. Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. The novel explores thepostmodern concerns of similar novels, which are often categorized as historiographic metafiction, a genre that blends approaches from bothhistorical fiction and metafiction.

Possession is written at a time Britain was involved in negotiating and redefining its post-imperial identity. Possession: A Romance is a 1990 bestselling novel by British writer A. 4.15 avg rating 168 ratings published 1995 7 editions. Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison. In this novel, the past is retrieved through a collage of pseudo-historical documents and intertexts. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Byatt's neo-Victorian novel Possession (1990). The present article examines the relationship between history and national identity in A. Possession is heavy with metafictional devices such as intertextual allusions (both of fairy. This article however offers a fresh line of research, because the writer believes that historiographic metafictional novels necessarily reveal a connection to the discourse of nationhood since they evoke shared memories of the past. Yet, the novel draws attention to itself as a work of fiction. The focus has been mostly upon the formal features of these writings. Abstract : There is a gap in the current research on historiographic metafictional novels previous efforts have mainly focused on the postmodern treatment of language and narration in these novels: the use of parody, language plays, slippage of meaning, etc.

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