What distinguishes historical texts from fiction is the reader's assumption that they relate 'what actually happened'. Works of fiction may purport to relate that, and may call upon the discursive apparatus of historical texts to give their claims an air of plausibility, but these claims are seriously meant only by the narrator, not by the author, who belongs to a different diegetic world. Readers of historical texts, by contrast, tend to identify author and narrator and to suppose an 'ontological connection' between the discourse and the events it signifies.
What distinguishes historical texts from fiction is the reader's assumption that they relate 'what actually happened'. Works of fiction may purport to relate that, and may call upon the discursive apparatus of historical texts to give their claims an air of plausibility, but these claims are seriously meant only by the narrator, not by the author, who belongs to a different diegetic world. Readers of historical texts, by contrast, tend to identify author and narrator and to suppose an 'ontological connection' between the discourse and the events it signifies.<br>
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