{"product_id":"history-and-fiction-writers-their-research-worlds-and-stories-paperback","title":"History and Fiction: Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGillian Polack\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the nature of the author's relationship with history and fiction as well as the role history plays in fiction. Focusing on genre fiction, this study considers key issues in the relationship between history and fiction, such as how writers incorporate historical research and how they build worlds based in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGillian Polack\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, editor, historian and critic based at the Australian National University. Her main research interests are cultural development and transmission in both the Middle Ages and the contemporary period. She has published several novels and seventeen short stories and has edited two anthologies. One of her stories won a Victorian Ministry of the Arts award and three more have been listed as recommended reading in the international lists of world's best fantasy and science fiction short stories. Her non-fiction includes work on historiography, the Middle Ages, Arthurian studies and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162067570823,"sku":"9781800790889","price":45.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/aca942a25da5d3d249e5fcdc064eef58.webp?v=1733286325","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/history-and-fiction-writers-their-research-worlds-and-stories-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}