… the "fact novel": the historical novel, biographical novel, and … a historical figure, for they see
facts as dead until transformed by … difficulties to the serious artist. But these difficulties and …

… could be outrageous and anomalous so long as they purported to be true (we recall Mme d'
… As Heidegger commented of the epistemological transition from Descartes to Kant, " 'I think" …

… In asking whether the historical inaccuracy of an historical novel affects its aesthetic or … –
a concept that Adorno borrowed from Kant, transforming it to capture the unique, indirect social …

… The fact is that until recently the historical romance has been predominantly a male canon. …
Despite the fact that most of the Harlem school artists were highly educated, their work …

… a clear eye on both moral purpose and artistic demands. The … the attempt to relate fiction
and fact, which will appear in this … of history from the eighteenth century has transformed history …

… and artistic achievements of the preceding century. If anything, it was a society in the process
of cultural transformation… It is true that the novel contains vast quantities of historical fact, far …

… , yet a true “historical novel” is one that is historical in its intention … of the arts that are born
of the marriage of different arts. A … “literature of knowledge” is transformed into the “literature of …

… figures and fortunes of men transformed into other shapes and … speeches in history books
must be invention (hence fiction); … known novel, the Shamela to some unknown artist's Pamela. …

… fiction James can be seen as writing for the sake of solving personal, artistic problems and for
fiction's … his protege's death by belaboring the fact of the artist's egoism and willfulness. Yet …

… , and the nature of the transformation (reconstruction) of reality … Artistic truth is a synthesis
of artistic fiction and reality, adjusts … of the past in the historical novels of a totalitarian and post-…