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Hravá autentičnost fiktivní historie v románu Jeho krvavé dílo Graeme Macrae Burneta

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Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

2020

issue 62

35-50

Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project (2015) is formally a historical novel with elements of detective fiction and the thriller. The book playfully presents itself as a dossier consisting of ostensibly authentic documents related to the case of a triple murder committed by a young destitute peasant named Roderick Macrae in a small and remote crofting hamlet in the Highlands in 1869. The individual texts, written in different styles and genres, include medical reports, expert opinions, witnesses’ testimonies, transcripts of the court proceedings and, most importantly, a memoir written by the culprit in his prison cell while he was waiting for the trial’s sentence. This article discusses Burnet’s novel and its skilful composition within the context of British literary tradition, but also shows how it exemplifies the determining tendencies in contemporary historical fiction.

Román Severní vody Iana McGuirea v kontextu neoviktoriánské prózy

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Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

2021

vol. 31

issue 2

Over more than fifty years of its existence, and particularly since the 1990s, the genre of Neo-Victorian fiction has gained in popularity, readership, status and prestige not only in Britain but worldwide. Its definition and delineation, however, have undergone certain evolution over the past three decades which, understandably, has included a number of substantial metamorphoses. Ian McGuire’s novel, The North Water (2016), is set in Victorian England and tells a story of a fraudulent whaling expedition to the Arctic Circle. Although in its portrayal of a moral conflict between good and evil, or more precisely, between fallible responsibility and ultimate selfishness, The North Water follows the Conradian tradition rather than that of a conventional mainstream Victorian narrative, this article argues that the novel in fact represents a distinct example of Neo-Victorian fiction which complies with the more recent development of this genre.

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Hravá autentičnost fiktivní historie v románu Jeho krvavé dílo Graeme Macrae Burneta

Román Severní vody Iana McGuirea v kontextu neoviktoriánské prózy