Is history fiction? /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney :
University of New South Wales Press,
2010.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Herodotus and world history; 2. Thucydides; 3. Leopold von Ranke and Sir Walter Scott; 4. History, Science and Art; 5. Has history any meaning?; 6. History in the light of catastrophe; 7. The linguistic turn; 8. The feminist challenge; 9. Postmodernism and post structuralism; 10. Anti-Postmodernism and the holocaust; 11. History wars; 12. Is a history of humanity possible?; Notes; index.