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Sémiotika žánru historické fikce
Semiotic of the Historical Novel Genre

Author(s): Tomáš Kubíček
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro českou literaturu
Keywords: historical novel; semiotic; fictional world

Summary/Abstract: The essay focuses on definitions of the ‘historical novel’ and argues that they are inadequate because they need to demonstrate why the text and the fictional world are relevant to the historical novel, by means of data from another set of ontological assumptions, the world of facts. The essay therefore proposes a semiotically based definition arising solely from the text and the fictional world of the text.

  • Issue Year: 59/2011
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 655-677
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Czech