Is history fiction? [[electronic resource] /] / Ann Curthoys and John Docker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453386803321
• Autore: Curthoys Ann
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sydney, N.S.W., : UNSW Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-74224-001-1; 1-74223-172-1
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DockerJohn
• Disciplina: 901; 907.2
• Soggetti: History - Philosophy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.