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Historical representation / F.R. Ankersmit.
LIBRA D13 .A637 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ankersmit, F. R.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Objectivity.
- Realism.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Focusing on the notion of representation and on the necessity of distinguishing between representation and description, this book argues that the traditional semantic apparatus of meaning, truth, and reference that we use for description must be redefined if we are to understand properly the nature of historical writing.
- Contents:
- Part I Historical Theory
- 1 The Linguistic Turn: Literary Theory and Historical Theory 29
- 2 In Praise of Subjectivity 75
- Part II Historical Consciousness
- 3 Gibbon and Ovid: History as Metamorphosis 107
- 4 The Dialectics of Narrativist Historism 123
- 5 The Postmodernist "Privatization" of the Past 149
- 6 Remembering the Holocaust: Mourning and Melancholia 176
- Part III Theorists
- 7 Why Realism? Auerbach on the Representation of Reality 197
- 8 Danto on Representation, Identity, and Indiscernibles 218
- 9 Hayden White's Appeal to the Historians 249
- 10 Rusen on History and Politics 262.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080473979X
- 0804739803
- OCLC:
- 47894562
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