historical novel
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandnovel
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historical
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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novel
noun[C]
uk/ˈnɒv.əl/us/ˈnɑː.vəl/
a long printed story about imaginary characters ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandnovelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhistorical novel
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Sublime genres, such as the ode, thehistoricalnovel, and the heroic biography, were in demand in many empires.
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She argues that thehistoricalnoveland the annalistic national tale have an intertwined genealogy, with "highly polarized" "political implications" (131).
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Material of this nature, abundant in this book, is on the level of ahistoricalnovel.
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In contrast, thehistoricalnovelfocuses on the ways developmental stages in culture collapse and are transformed by historical events.
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The point common to both thehistoricalnoveland the memoir is that both describe an experience which has no future.
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It is a story wrought in the bones of thehistoricalnovelitself.
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Thehistoricalnovelstill lives in our time.
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The experience described in thehistoricalnovelhas no future because of the constraint of fictionalization.
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Anhistoricalnovel, we might call it, without everything conventionally historical.
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Perhaps the revaluation of fiction through the invention of thehistoricalnovelis in part an attempt to use fiction to bridge the gap between memory and history.
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This unreal familiarity is very much the experience of thehistoricalnovelas the novel of the middle distance, the time of the grandfathers, the limit of memory.
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He is the subject of a two-volumehistoricalnovelbearing his name.
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However, it has been argued the novel does not contain all of the elements of the romance genre, making it simply ahistoricalnovel.
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He wrote twenty books, including ahistoricalnovel.
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He spent an entire year writing a thousand-pagehistoricalnovelthat has never been published.
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They have referred to the contemporary situation of our country through thehistoricalnovel.
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The novel can be read as a fantastic story, as ahistoricalnovel, or as an epic.
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He attempted to mix fact and fiction, which leads to the book being something of ahistoricalnovel.
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This short novel mixes thehistoricalnoveland feuilleton styles.
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