Reames

Britt Reames is a quality young right-hander who will fit the Expos 'desire for a youngster who does not bear a big salary.

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Donna Reames Rich is an avid writer, and has written on a freelance basis for the past twenty years.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

This may sound like amplification of the underlying argument about the pedagogical value of historical fiction, but to the extent that Reames-Zimmerman is suggesting that "history" really isn't the point of historical fiction, that it is just another way of approaching the present, as well as the ongoing dilemmas human beings continue to face, I think she goes some way toward justifying historical fiction as a form of literary art.

Historical Fiction 2010

I said in my review that I didn't quite understand the purpose of historical fiction, but Reames-Zimmerman spells out quite explicitly what must be the purpose of a great deal of such fiction: to teach us about the past, or help us draw some moral lesson from it, to make history (and thus fiction as well) have "meaning" and evoke "compassion."

Historical Fiction 2010

Reames-Zimmerman does a very thorough job of elucidating what she takes to be the task of historical fiction, but for my purposes this passage seems particularly revealing:

Historical Fiction 2010

I have explained in a number of previous posts why I don't have much patience for this view of both storytelling and the art of fiction, so I won't go on further about it here, except to say I am dubious that fiction can have the kind of instructional value Reames-Zimmerman so urgently wants it to have.

Historical Fiction 2010

As a response to some of the questions I posed in my recent review of Lily Tuck's The News from Paraguay, The Little Professor points to this essay by the historian and historical novelist Jeanne Reames-Zimmerman.

Historical Fiction 2010

Donna Reames Rich is an avid writer, and has written on a freelance basis for the past twenty years.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

But Reames-Zimmerman makes another point that is well worth heeding:

Historical Fiction 2010

Donna Reames Rich is an R.N., specializing in pediatric psychology.

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