Lover's Quarrel with the Past, A: Romance, Representation, Reading

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Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the 'non-historian' as an 'able' interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and refigurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive 'linguistic' turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical exper…

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Full title :Lover's Quarrel with the Past, A : Romance, Representation, Reading.

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Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780857454850, 0857454854, 1283571870, 9781283571876, 9786613884329, 6613884324
oclc:ocn811490689
LC Classification:D16.8 .G47 2012
Dewey Decimal:901

Acknowledgements; Preface to the Series; Foreword -- Imagination and Fact: A Lover's Quarrel; Introduction -- The Quarrel Begins . . .; Chapter 1 -- Romancing the Past: Presence and Intangibilities of History; Chapter 2 -- Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation: History and Memory; Chapter 3 -- Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? The Historian's Ethics and the Ethics of Historical Reading; Afterword -- The Quarrel Continues . . .; Bibliography; Index.

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Histoire -- Étude et enseignement Historiography -- Moral and ethical asp… Historiography -- Political aspects Historiography -- Social aspects History -- Philosophy History -- Study and teaching HISTORY ; General Représentation (philosophie) Representation (Philosophy) Romanticism romanticism (form of expression) romantisme