Historical representation and historical truth / edited by Wulf Kansteiner and Christoph Classen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kansteiner, Wulf.

Classen, Christoph.

Series:

History and theory. Theme issue ; 47.

History and theory : studies in the philosophy of history. Theme issue ; 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Collective memory.

Truth.

Physical Description:

137 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Middletown, Conn.] : Wesleyan University, 2009.

Contents:

Truth and authenticity in contemporary historical culture : an introduction to Historical representation and historical truth / Christoph Classen and Wulf Kansteiner

All this happened, more or less : what a novelist made of the bombing of Dresden / Ann Rigney

Success, truth, and modernism in Holocaust historiography : reading Saul Friedländer thirty-five years after the publication of Metahistory / Wulf Kansteiner

Photographs, symbolic images, and the Holocaust : on the (im)possibility of depicting historical truth / Judith Keilbach

Balanced truth : Steven Spielberg's Schindler's list among history, memory, and popular culture / Christoph Classen

Digitalizing historical consciousness / Claudio Fogu

The syntax of objects and the representation of history : speaking of slavery in New York / Bettina M. Carbonell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

351778441