dc.contributor.author	Garcia, Anca Olguta Giorgiana
dc.date.accessioned	2017-12-14T18:45:08Z
dc.date.available	2017-12-14T18:45:08Z
dc.date.issued	2017-12
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10428/2960
dc.description.abstract	My thesis analyzes comparatively from the perspective of the dialectic relationship between history and literature three different historical writings from three different time periods: the Anglo-Saxon world through Beowulf, Victorian England through Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, and postcolonial Europe and India through Salman Rushdie’s novel The Enchantress of Florence. It discusses how these writings use a common metatextual trope represented by the idea of glory which implies that literature becomes the territory where historical characters are textually built rather than reconstructed based on historical evidence. It also indicates how this metatextual dimension also generates a second level of meaning, one related to the ideological needs of their time. Thus, it demonstrates that Beowulf contains the frame of a utopia, Dracula becomes a myth, and The Enchantress of Florence encloses a sophisticated play between history and literature.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Rushdie, Salman	en_US
dc.subject	Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. Dracula.	en_US
dc.subject	Beowulf	en_US
dc.subject	Literature	en_US
dc.subject	Thesis and dissertation	en_US
dc.title	Writing into Existence: Rethinking History through Literature in Beowulf, Dracula by Bram Stoker,and The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of English of the College of Arts and Sciences	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Clegg-Hyer, Maren
dc.description.committee	Katawal, Ubaraj
dc.description.committee	James, Christine
dc.description.degree	M.S.	en_US
dc.description.major	English	en_US