LEAVES OF BLUEGRASS FICTIONS
LEAVES OF BLUEGRASS FICTIONS

Summary/Abstract: Easily translatable as ŖPages of Fiction Set in Kentuckyŗ this paper is a brief chronological account of how an 1835 Kentucky murder story has been taken over again and again in quite a number of works of fiction (mostly plays and novels, beginning with such contemporaries as Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Holley Chivers, Charlotte Barnes, and William Gilmore Simms, to other nineteenth-century authorsŕJohn Savage…--and twentieth-century onesŕRobert Penn Warren, Richard Taylor, John Hawkins…) The selected fictions here are the original one (including the murdererřs Confession), Poeřs (only and unfinished) play Politian, and Warrenřs World Enough and Time, which the author found illustrative enough for the ways in which fiction/s deviate/s and depart/s from the actual historical facts; the paper also discusses how these very real facts become fictional facts as soon as they turn into linguistic(-imaginative) representations (reports, records, testimonies, confessions, documents and accounts of all sorts…) of the former.

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