History as a kind of writing : textual strategies in contemporary French historiography /

In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the 'posts' - postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism - which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. Philippe Carrard speaks to this complexity by focusing the lens on the curr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carrard, Philippe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Historiography > France.
History > Methodology.
Literature and history > France.
History > Philosophy.
Histoire > Méthodologie.
Littérature et histoire > France.
HISTORY > Study & Teaching.
Historiography.
Literature and history.
France.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: French history and its manuals
  • Dispositions; Squabbles about narrative; Linear narratives; Writing the event; Synchronic cross sections; Stage narratives; Theory of a practice
  • Situations; Enunciations; Perspectives; The discourse of the absentee; Readerships
  • Figures; Attestations; References; Computations; Uncertainties; Wordplay and figures of speech
  • Conclusion.

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