PERSPECTIVES ON POSTMODERNISM AND THE HISTORICAL FICTION
PERSPECTIVES ON POSTMODERNISM AND THE HISTORICAL FICTION

Summary/Abstract: This article provides insight into postmodernism as a whole and postmodernist literary theory in particular, with a special focus on historical fiction written according to the views of this eclectic trend. The emergence of new scientific and philosophical ideas caused the major shift of mentalities and led to the emergence of new perspectives and major changes. The old traditions and metanarratives were no longer able to keep up with the rapid changes in the social life, with the technological progress, the emancipation of minorities, the fall of high culture and rise of popular culture and the global village. Postmodernism encompasses all these new perspectives and mentalities, and it is reflected in architecture, art and our everyday life. In literature, historiographic metafiction is the new form of historical novel and its origins and principles are analyzed by major postmodernist theorists, as presented in this paper.

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