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	Mount Holyoke College :: News
		In her latest book, Shakespeare's Genealogies, author and MHC professor Vanessa James continues to indulge people's fascination with family trees by uncovering the familial relationships of more than 1,000 of William Shakespeare's characters across all 42 of his plays and dramatic poems.
		Published by Melcher Media, this book is a follow-up to her critically acclaimed Genealogy of Greek Mythology, in which James reveals the lineage of more than 3,000 mythical gods and mortals from ancient Greek texts.
		Genealogies pique the interest of many people because they illuminate the complexities of blood relationships and can help clarify the family dynamics that underlie drama.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/develop/giving/newsfull.shtml?nomy=1&node=5458129&full=1 (469 words)

	The documentary chronotope by Michael Chanan
		Here the least we can say is that fiction and documentary are different families, they have different genealogies, but they also tend to intermarry, and as a result, some of their features migrate from one family to the other.
		This Brechtian and non-naturalistic documentary fiction, which was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign fiction film, is a film which is both rooted in and exemplifies the nature of documented evidence, its incompleteness, its frequently contradictory character, its repression, and the consequences of its revelation.
		Fiction is the work of pro-filmic construction, even, one might add, when it is constructed in order to imitate documentary.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC43folder/DocyChronotope.html (4736 words)

	INCEST AND DEATH AS INDICES OF THE FEMALE HERO IN ROMANCE
		However, it seems that these fictions, at least in their popular form, would be relative to the customs rather than to the legal debates and to the codifying efforts of a given administration.
		In fact, analysis of noble genealogies throughout Europe yields a significant amount of incestuous relationships, whether the incest taboo be defined in the terms of modern, nuclear family or in the terms of extended medieval family where, according to the case, third to seventh degree relatives are considered taboo as well.
		Casting a woman as victim of fictional incest may indicate that the hierarchy of moral values is the reverse of the patriarchal hierarchy.
	tell.fll.purdue.edu /RLA-Archive/1992/French-html/Walecka,Anna.htm (5509 words)

	Christine Isom-Verhaaren \| Royal French Women in the Ottoman Sultans' Harem: The Political Uses of Fabricated Accounts ...
		Genealogies are traditions that not only explain relationships within a society; they may validate relationships between groups, as in foreign relations, as well.
		Vertical genealogies or king lists, which were found throughout the ancient Near East, were utilized to demonstrate the legitimacy of a ruler.
		Since they are all works of fiction, the authors take historical liberties with their plots, which they develop according to their individual agendas and interests.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/17.2/isomverhaaren.html (15065 words)

	Notebook
		But clearly there is no such thing as a fictional or a thematic work of literature, for all four ethical elements [ethical in the sense of relating to character], the hero, the hero's society, the poet and the poet's readers, are always at least potentially present.
		Both novels are strongly fictional in emphasis compared to Uncle Tom's Cabin or The Grapes of Wrath, where the plot exists primarily to illustrate the themes of slavery and migratory labor respectively.
		We note that as we move from fictional to thematic emphasis, the element represented by the term mythos tends to mean increasingly "narrative" rather than "plot.".
	www.noteaccess.com /Texts/Frye/Historical.htm (2241 words)

	Barbelith: Head Shop: The Body Fictive
		The perception of fictional writing prevalent in discussions here and elsewhere seems to be of an art- or culture-commodity, the product of a bourgeois, or at least privileged group selecting the writing profession as an alternative to the law or the bank.
		To create fiction is likewise to create a living prosthesis to probe the realm of ideas, to try out a set of identity relations, and examine possible assemblages of the world and one's own place in it.
		The fictional body is adopted and a new set of concerns is expressed through it - onto it - or the old identity is extrematised, as in slash fiction.
	www.barbelith.com /cgi-bin/articles/00000045.shtml (2597 words)

	The New Yorker : online : content (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In my piece, I quote from a genealogy that my grandfather had prepared in the nineteen-fifties; it is almost certainly inaccurate on several key points, but it served the purpose of getting my grandfather the ancestors he believed he deserved.
		This could stimulate genealogy, but it could also hurt it, because to some people being related to everyone is no better than being related to no one at all.
		It will be interesting to observe what happens as DNA genealogy moves into the mainstream, and you have people who have one genetic family and one cultural family and they are not the same.
	www.newyorker.com /online/content/010326on_onlineonly01 (1116 words)

	Inaccurate passages and themes in The Da Vinci Code book
		They regard the genealogies of Jesus, which appear in the gospels written by Matthew and Luke, to be factually correct.
		The anonymous author of the Gospel of Luke invented a genealogy for Jesus to fulfill the predictions of the Old Testament.
		Some theologians and very early Christian writers believe that the original copies of the Gospel of Matthew did not incorporate sections on Jesus' genealogy and nativity; the first two chapters were written later by an unknown forger, include his or her beliefs about Jesus' ancestry, and were attached as a prefix to the original gospel.
	www.religioustolerance.org /davinci3.htm (2137 words)

	Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology - Case 21: Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Responsibilities
		When she first entered the field, she had been accepted as a granddaughter by an elderly couple with whom she had always lived; the couple's three grown children and their spouses, who lived close by, treated her as a sister (or sister-in-law).
		Becky planned to spend the summer catching up on genealogies and reviewing a rough draft of her book on the tribe with her hosts.
		Becky Ross's experience provides both an example of responsibility in a fieldwork situation and a warning--a warning that entry into fictional or quasi-kinship relationships entails expectations and claims that the anthropologist may find onerous, especially if the relationship continues over the years as the anthropologist makes repeated visits to the same locality.
	www.aaanet.org /committees/ethics/case21.htm (845 words)

	Hawaiian Mythology: Part One: The Gods: I. Coming of the Gods
		Hawaiians use the term kaao for a fictional story or one in which fancy plays an important part, that of moolelo for a narrative about a historical figure, one which is supposed to follow historical events.
		It appears in the recitation by rote of genealogies in which husbands and wives are paired through literally hundreds of generations.
		It is notable that in similar genealogies such as the Hebrew, in which, as introduced by the missionaries, Hawaiians showed extraordinary interest, males alone are recorded.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pac/hm/hm03.htm (3540 words)

	Inquisitive Atheists - Jesus: The Pretend Christ (Jesus is mythical / false prophet )
		Genealogies of Jesus (1) - Examines the connection between Jesus and King David.
		Genealogies of Jesus (2) - Examines the genealogy of Jesus given in Matthew.
		Genealogies of Jesus (3) - Examines the genealogy of Jesus given in Luke, the problems, and Christian excuses.
	www.geocities.com /inquisitive79/jesus.html (736 words)

	'Genealogies of a Crime': Complex Fantasy With a Load of What-Ifs
		Before "Genealogies" has coursed through its circular narrative, there have been many more deaths: a fatal heart attack, a mass suicide and several violent homicides.
		One way of seeing "Genealogies of a Crime" is as a humorous meditation on the moviegoing experience itself.
		For "Genealogies of a Crime" stands back from its story just far enough to keep you from surrendering your objectivity and swooning into the action.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/032798genalog-film-reiew.html (780 words)

	Untitled Document
		Thus, the narrative process amounts to a reformulation, in the mode of fiction, of the "scientific" discourse of the ethnographic literature on the Igbo, a process by which Achebe seeks to reclaim a pre-existing Western discourse on his personal background for a new and different ideological purpose.
		This suggests that the assimilation of fiction to history is authorized not merely in formal terms--what Hayden White calls "emplotment"--but also of content, insofar as in both cases, the real world of concrete experience features as referent of the narrative.
		This seems to me the direction of meaning in Achebe's fiction, which, in its immediate reference, represents an imaginative remapping of the African experience within the space of history, the literary mode deployed as a means of shaping consciousness for the confrontation of the new realities on the horizon of African being.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v4/v4i3a1.htm (14697 words)

	Cullen Surname History: Part III
		It is pointed out specifically that this genealogy relates to the O'Coilean, a sept name that produced the surname Collins, one of the most common surnames in all of Ireland and still found in greatest numbers in their original territories in Counties Cork and Limerick.
		An early genealogy of the Corca Laoighdhe is cited as: Luigdech Loigde (for whom the Corca Laoighdhe is named), the son of Dairi [Doimtig] no Sirchrechtaig, the son of Sidebuilg, the son of Fir Suilne, the son of Tecmanrach, the son of Loga, the son of Eithlenn, the son of Luigdech, the son of Bregaind.
		Melige is a name found more often in the early genealogies of the O'Neill sept and the descent of the sept of O'Cuilinn has been variously described as being connected to the southern O'Neill though this passage is difficult to understand in that context.
	www.lrbcg.com /jtcullen/CullHis3.htm (5581 words)

	Reading Fiction
		Fictions, which is where most introductory books on literature begin, are a type of narrative which is, at least in part, "made-up" or fabricated by the imagination.
		Fictions can be "made-up" stories, but they also can contain both "truth" and "fact." He says, "Fact and fiction are old acquaintances.
		Fiction (either in its more imaginative or less --"nonfiction"-- imaginative forms) is simply the most popular genre to read.
	www.cod.edu /people/faculty/fitchf/readlit/narrative.htm (1023 words)

	bible.org: The Ages of the Antediluvian Patriarchs In Genesis 5
		In the genealogy, the size of the numbers (whatever they mean) add punch and cause the reader to take more notice of what's happening.
		In light of this, all factors of this genealogy would be subservient to that main point, i.e., all details, including the meaning of the numbers, serve the overriding primary purpose of the genealogy.
		The purpose of the genealogy (whether it be a theological purpose or a literary way to speed through time) helps the reader/listener to get a more primary point and not to get hopelessly lost on the details of the presentation.
	www.bible.org /page.php?page_id=3054 (5261 words)

	The Table Of Nations: A Unique Document
		As Kalisch observed, (3) "The earliest historiography consists almost entirely of genealogies: they are most frequently the medium of explaining the connection and descent of tribes and nations," inserting where appropriate brief historical notes such as those relating to Nimrod and Peleg in Genesis 10.
		Although the genealogies of the Bible are apt to be treated with less respect than the more strictly narrative portions, they are nevertheless worthy of careful study and will be found to provide unexpected "clues to Holy Writ." Genesis 10, "The Table of Nations," is certainly no exception.
		If the writer had been attempting a piece of historic fiction, he would surely have added parenthetically that he was not referring to Ethiopia in the present context.
	custance.org /old/noah/ch1bh.html (7310 words)

	Peshawar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The art of fictional narration can be traced back to the earliest civilizations, and has assumed various different appearances over the centuries.
		The fact that this form of narration is fictitious was never really used to discredit literary fiction, since the lessons the author of Aesop's Fables, for example, wished to impart, did not depend upon whether his animal characters could or did really speak.
		However, it is when the author of the fictional narrative tries to overstep the bounds of fiction and confer upon his work the appearance of historical authenticity, that his work loses the respectable designation "literary fiction", and earns for itself the ignominious epithet "literary hoax".
	www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Stu/azarinni/pesh.htm (10057 words)

	Audiotapes.com - Search titles abstract
		The Israel Genealogical Society is delighted to invite you to the 24th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, to be held on July 11 16, 2004, in Jerusalem, Israel.
		The connection between family novels and genealogical research is strengthened by the fact that many novels show their protagonists as they conduct genealogical research in archives and cemeteries in order to retrieve fragments of their family histories.
		The Jewish Genealogy Society of Ottawa and Avotaynu are negotiating with the State Archives of the Russian Federation for the creation of a data base of all these names, to be mounted on the internet.
	www.audiotapes.com /Search4.asp?Search=jewish (10156 words)

	The English Royal family
		For the comprehensive Royal family tree, start at William the Conqueror in the Genealogy of the British Royal Family, into which I extensively hyperlink.
		Noah is fictional too (to understand why, see here) but Abraham may have existed.
		Here is a genealogy to c.1400 BC written out by Matthew James Buell, apparently based on Descents From Antiquity.
	humphrysfamilytree.com /Royal (586 words)

	1996 AAS Abstracts: China Session 189
		Similarly, Tashi Dawa, a native Tibetan, is another important figure in the literary scene of contemporary Chinese "avant-garde." His fictional genealogies against the background of Tibet become a challenge against the official historiographical writing.
		Though in different geographical locations, their experiences of exile were juxtaposed: alienated from modern life, yearning to return to nature, and creating fictional spaces in which they seek for home, love, and an ideal way of life, mixed with fantasy and agony.
		Jia and Gu had their literary journey to transcend modernity and history, yet they were burdened with the memory of their nightmarish past and political repression, which were inscribed by geographical characteristics.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1996abst/china/c189.htm (1213 words)

	Randel Helms. Gospel Fictions. A Critique
		The main premise of this book is that the writers of the Gospels are creators of fiction; more precisely, it is suggested, they filched material from a variety of sources, mostly the OT but a few pagan sources as well, in order to compose fictional stories about Jesus of Nazareth.
		Helms writes, however, that "oral tradition is by definition unstable, notoriously open to mythical, legendary, and fictional embellishment." As those who have read our material know, this statement is substantially untrue, especially in regards to oral tradition in a Jewish socio-cultural setting.
		Helms also makes an issue of there having been no archaeological evidence of "gate" at Nain and claims it is fictionally transferred from the OT parallel; presumably he hasn't the imagination to suppose that the Nainites kept their animals in the village with a wooden structure that would not survive.
	www.tektonics.org /gk/helmsr01.html (9351 words)

	Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Collection: Historical Catharsis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The paradigm of overcoming the socioeconomic and psychological wounds generated by the experience of colonialism and/or state violence so as to reconnect with a pre-colonial past or to altogether emerge as a self-directed free subject, has been challenged by literary engagements with the traumatic histories.
		This collection invites paper proposals that focus on the evocation of family genealogies in African and African Diaspora Literature.
		The goal is to explore how family genealogies challenge normative conceptions of "the past" on which narratives of catharsis depend, and thus also question the notion that one can free oneself of it by means of a "cathartic" experience.
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/007429.html (335 words)

	20kWeb: Is Christianity A Hoax?
		Its conclusions, if true, are astounding, for they shake the foundations of history and make a mockery of the wits and intellects of a great host of epoch bending sages, philosophers, and theologians.
		Thus, the gospel, according to one Abelard Reuchelin, an earnest researcher of historic genealogies who specialized in ancient families.
		He began to zero in on one family in particular, the Piso family of Roman Patricians, who dominated the Roman aristocracy over several generations, producing caesars, consuls, generals, statesmen, philosophers, historians, scholars and bishops of the early Church.
	www.20kweb.com /weird_stuff/christianity_is_a_hoax.html (621 words)

	Lists of fictional things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These are lists of fictional things created in literature or media that are available.
		Fictional characters who are from Fort Wayne, Indiana
		Unlike fictional people, i.e., people from works of fiction, fictitious people are those somebody has claimed actually exist, for the purpose of e.g., a hoax, a fraud, or a pseudonym.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archive_of_fictional_things (529 words)

	Aegeans
		Families kept genealogies that professed to record continuous lines of descent from ancestors who had traveled to Colchis with
		There has been much debate as to whether the epics were fictional or factual.
		In early classical studies they were thought to be mostly fictional.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/a/aegeans.html (687 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bards were those who sang the songs recalling the tribal warriors' deeds of bravery as well as the genealogies and family histories of the ruling strata among Celtic societies.
		During the era of Romanticism, when knowledge of Celtic culture was overlaid by legends and fictions, the word was reintroduced into the West Germanic languages, this time directly into the English language, in the sense of "lyric poet", idealised by writers such as the Scottish romantic novelist Sir Walter Scott.
		However, much of their work would not strike the modern reader as being poetry at all, consisting as it does of extended genealogies and almost journalistic accounts of the deeds of their lords and ancestors.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Bard (660 words)

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