“Two Wings of the Same Breathing Creature”: Fictionalizing History

Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2003
AuthorsCushing Strout
JournalPartisan Review
Volume70
Issue1
Pagination93
ISSN00312525
Short Title“Two Wings of the Same Breathing Creature”
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Abstract

Uses references to the works of Tracy Chevalier, Max Byrd, and Michael Frayn to discuss the use and abuse of poetic license and the link between literature and history that allows historical novelists to transform fact to fiction.