The Resource Is history fiction?, Ann Curthoys and John Docker
Is history fiction?, Ann Curthoys and John Docker
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- Summary
- The relationship between history and fiction has always been a controversial one. Can we ever know that a historical narrative is giving us a true account of what actually happened? Provocative and fascinating, this book is an original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is and might be written. It traces Historys doubleness and divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides, right up to the key figures of historical reflection, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Benedetto Croce, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Hayden White. The authors explore the challenges posed by postmodernism to history and the literary conventions of most historical writing. In this second edition they bring their history of history up to the present in their study of the History Wars and new approaches to world history and environmental history
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- viii, 331 p.
- Note
- Previous ed.: c2006 [ie. 2005]
- Contents
-
- Herodotus and world history
- Thucycides
- Leopold von Ranke and Sir Walter Scott
- History, science and art
- Has history any meaning?
- History in the light of catastrophe
- The linguistic turn
- The feminist challenge
- Postmodernism and poststructuralism
- Anti-postmodernism and the Holocaust
- History wars
- Is a history of humanity possible?
- Isbn
- 9781742231716
- Label
- Is history fiction?
- Title
- Is history fiction?
- Statement of responsibility
- Ann Curthoys and John Docker
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The relationship between history and fiction has always been a controversial one. Can we ever know that a historical narrative is giving us a true account of what actually happened? Provocative and fascinating, this book is an original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is and might be written. It traces Historys doubleness and divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides, right up to the key figures of historical reflection, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Benedetto Croce, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Hayden White. The authors explore the challenges posed by postmodernism to history and the literary conventions of most historical writing. In this second edition they bring their history of history up to the present in their study of the History Wars and new approaches to world history and environmental history
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Curthoys, Ann
- Dewey number
- 907.2
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Docker, John
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- History
- Label
- Is history fiction?, Ann Curthoys and John Docker
- Note
- Previous ed.: c2006 [ie. 2005]
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Herodotus and world history -- Thucycides -- Leopold von Ranke and Sir Walter Scott -- History, science and art -- Has history any meaning? -- History in the light of catastrophe -- The linguistic turn -- The feminist challenge -- Postmodernism and poststructuralism -- Anti-postmodernism and the Holocaust -- History wars -- Is a history of humanity possible?
- Control code
- 000045327940
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- viii, 331 p.
- Isbn
- 9781742231716
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2011379978
- System control number
- (OCoLC)528530193
- Label
- Is history fiction?, Ann Curthoys and John Docker
- Note
- Previous ed.: c2006 [ie. 2005]
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Herodotus and world history -- Thucycides -- Leopold von Ranke and Sir Walter Scott -- History, science and art -- Has history any meaning? -- History in the light of catastrophe -- The linguistic turn -- The feminist challenge -- Postmodernism and poststructuralism -- Anti-postmodernism and the Holocaust -- History wars -- Is a history of humanity possible?
- Control code
- 000045327940
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- viii, 331 p.
- Isbn
- 9781742231716
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2011379978
- System control number
- (OCoLC)528530193
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