Narrative and History

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Narrative and History explains the key concepts and practices in the composition and writing of history. It explores how knowledge of the ways in which historians author history affects many conventional understandings of its nature. Major concepts such as truth, objectivity, reference and representation are re-evaluated in radical ways.

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Full title :Narrative and History / Alun Munslow.

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Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Basingstoke
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

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Description:1 online resource (208 pages)

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ISBN:9781137019431, 1137019433
oclc:ocn945767016
LC Classification:D13
Dewey Decimal:907.2

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The past and history/the-past-as-history; Three genres of history; Conclusion; 1 Narrating the Past; Representation; Story, narrating and narration; Conclusion; 2 History as Content/Story; Following a story; Epistemological choice; Aesthetics/figuration/trope; Emplotment/story; Argument/analysis/explanation; Ethical/political/ideological choices; Reference/sources; Conclusion; 3 Narrating and Narration; The historian as author; Voice and focalisation; Tense/time: Mimésis, order, duration and frequency.

Intentionality: Text, action, agency, characterisation and the historianConclusion; 4 History as Expression; Written texts; Film and photography; Television and radio; Graphic novels, comics, history magazines; Public histories: Museums, heritage and memorials; Performance: Re-enactment, 'first-person' history, games; Digitised representations; Conclusion; 5 The Past, the Facts and History; Historical reality; Reference/facts; Representation; Conclusion; 6 Understanding [in] History; Explanation; Meaning; Experimental History; Conclusion; 7 The Oar in Water; Objectivity; Truth; Relativism.

ConclusionConclusion; Glossary; Notes; Furt…