Is history fiction? / Ann Curthoys and John Docker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curthoys, Ann.

Contributor:

Docker, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : UNSW Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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 History's 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.

Contents:

Contents; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781742240015

1742240011

9781742231723

1742231721

OCLC:

657672942