Gavriel Rosenfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavriel Rosenfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenfeld |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENFELD G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why Do We Ask "What If?" Reflections on the Function of Alternate History
The new prominence of alternate history in Western popular culture has increasingly prompted scholars to historicize it as a broader phenomenon. What has largely escaped notice until now, however, has been the question of the underlying function of alternate history as a genre of speculative narrative representation. In this essay, I argue that writers and scholars have long produced "allohistorical narratives" out of fundamentally presentist mot…
Why Do We Ask "What If?" Reflections on the Function of Alternate History
The new prominence of alternate history in Western popular culture has increasingly prompted scholars to historicize it as a broader phenomenon. What has largely escaped notice until now, however, has been the question of the underlying function of alternate history as a genre of speculative narrative representation. In this essay, I argue that writers and scholars have long produced "allohistorical narratives" out of fundamentally presentist mot…
Why Do We Ask "What If?" Reflections on the Function of Alternate History
The new prominence of alternate history in Western popular culture has increasingly prompted scholars to historicize it as a broader phenomenon. What has largely escaped notice until now, however, has been the question of the underlying function of alternate history as a genre of speculative narrative representation. In this essay, I argue that writers and scholars have long produced "allohistorical narratives" out of fundamentally presentist mot…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Collective memory (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Fantasy (1 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (1 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (1 works) · History (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Literature (1 works)