“Cruel Capes”: a novel; and the nexus between fact and imagination: a discourse of the historical fiction genre in contemporary novels: an exegesis

The allegedly daring deeds of 16-year-old Grace Bussell and Sam Isaacs – legendary heroes of the 1876 Georgette shipwreck – are questioned in the historical novel, Cruel Capes, the creative component of this thesis. The production of the accompanying exegesis has informed the creative and ethical ap...

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Main Author: Van Zeller, Marcia
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/319
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description The allegedly daring deeds of 16-year-old Grace Bussell and Sam Isaacs – legendary heroes of the 1876 Georgette shipwreck – are questioned in the historical novel, Cruel Capes, the creative component of this thesis. The production of the accompanying exegesis has informed the creative and ethical approach to revisioning the Georgette rescue. Both components strive to answer the central research question: How can a writer of historical fiction ethically negotiate the divide between fact and imagination?
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-3192017-02-20T06:42:04Z “Cruel Capes”: a novel; and the nexus between fact and imagination: a discourse of the historical fiction genre in contemporary novels: an exegesis Van Zeller, Marcia The allegedly daring deeds of 16-year-old Grace Bussell and Sam Isaacs – legendary heroes of the 1876 Georgette shipwreck – are questioned in the historical novel, Cruel Capes, the creative component of this thesis. The production of the accompanying exegesis has informed the creative and ethical approach to revisioning the Georgette rescue. Both components strive to answer the central research question: How can a writer of historical fiction ethically negotiate the divide between fact and imagination? 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/319 en Curtin University fulltext
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“Cruel Capes”: a novel; and the nexus between fact and imagination: a discourse of the historical fiction genre in contemporary novels: an exegesis
title “Cruel Capes”: a novel; and the nexus between fact and imagination: a discourse of the historical fiction genre in contemporary novels: an exegesis
title_full “Cruel Capes”: a novel; and the nexus between fact and imagination: a discourse of the historical fiction genre in contemporary novels: an exegesis
title_fullStr “Cruel Capes”: a novel; and the nexus between fact and imagination: a discourse of the historical fiction genre in contemporary novels: an exegesis
title_full_unstemmed “Cruel Capes”: a novel; and the nexus between fact and imagination: a discourse of the historical fiction genre in contemporary novels: an exegesis
title_short “Cruel Capes”: a novel; and the nexus between fact and imagination: a discourse of the historical fiction genre in contemporary novels: an exegesis
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