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| Author | : Derek Thiess |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2014-11-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0739196189 |
The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get a distinctly different interpretation of past events. While the science fiction alternate history means to illuminate the past, to increase our understanding of past events, however, the postmodern approach to history typically suggests that such understanding is impossible. To the postmodern philosopher, history is like literature in that it does not offer the reader access to the past, but only an interesting story. Building on criticism that suggests personal psychological reasons for this obscuring the past, and using a literary theory of readership, this book challenges the postmodern approach to history. It channels the speculative power of science fiction to read the works of postmodern philosophy of history as alternate histories themselves, and to map the limits and pathology of their forgetful reading of the past.
| Author | : Paul Weiss |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1985-11-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780887060809 |
| Author | : George Orwell |
| Publisher | : Renard Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 15 |
| Release | : 2021-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1913724263 |
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
| Author | : Dennis A. Trinkle |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2015-04-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317451430 |
This volume focuses on the role of the computer and electronic technology in the discipline of history. It includes representative articles addressing H-Net, scholarly publication, on-line reviewing, enhanced lectures using the World Wide Web, and historical research.
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| Total Pages | : 588 |
| Release | : 1920 |
| Genre | : Ethical culture movement |
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| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 1965 |
| Genre | : Communism |
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| Author | : Samuel D. Kassow |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 603 |
| Release | : 2018-08-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253041058 |
In 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity. As the Final Solution unfolded, although decimated by murders and deportations, the group persevered in its work until the spring of 1943. Of its more than 60 members, only three survived. Ringelblum and his family perished in March 1944. But before he died, he managed to hide thousands of documents in milk cans and tin boxes. Searchers found two of these buried caches in 1946 and 1950. Who Will Write Our History tells the gripping story of Ringelblum and his determination to use historical scholarship and the collection of documents to resist Nazi oppression.
| Author | : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya |
| Publisher | : Pearson Education India |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : India |
| ISBN | : 9788131719589 |
Contributed seminar papers.
| Author | : Peter Burke |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis US |
| Total Pages | : 712 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780415093095 |
The fifth volume of the this series examines historical events and cultural, social and political structures which were introduced between the 16th and 18th centuries.
| Author | : Elisabeth Wesseling |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1991-12-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9027277605 |
This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre. Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, in the work of, among others, Julian Barnes, Jay Cantor, Robert Coover and Graham Swift. Wesseling also shows how postmodernist writers attempt to envisage alternative sequences for historical events. Deliberately distorting historical facts, authors of such uchronian fiction, like Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael R. Read, Salman Rushdie and Gunter Grass, imagine what history looks like from the perspective of the losers, rather than the winners.
