03057nam 2200625 a 450 991045338680332120200520144314.01-74224-001-11-74223-172-1(CKB)2550000001158076(EBL)661407(OCoLC)657672942(SSID)ssj0000470495(PQKBManifestationID)11288864(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470495(PQKBWorkID)10415655(PQKB)10525841(MiAaPQ)EBC555730(MiAaPQ)EBC661407(Au-PeEL)EBL555730(CaPaEBR)ebr10400687(CaONFJC)MIL541162(OCoLC)652654259(Au-PeEL)EBL661407(EXLCZ)99255000000115807620100810d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIs history fiction?[electronic resource] /Ann Curthoys and John Docker2nd ed.Sydney, N.S.W. UNSW Press20101 online resource (340 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-74223-171-3 1-306-09911-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; indexThe 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.HistoryPhilosophyElectronic books.HistoryPhilosophy.901907.2Curthoys Ann801636Docker John163452MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453386803321Is history fiction2481957UNINA