Abstract
Brings together some of the most important essays which produced this revolution in the theory of history and also the responses it provoked. Material has been selected both for its philosophical depth and for the clear and accessible manner in which particular arguments are developed using real historical examples and practices in the discipline.
Table of Contents
Narrativity. The historical text as literary artifact / Hayden White
Interpretation, history, and narrative / Noël Carroll
Writing and reading history. The rhetoric of history / J. H. Hexter
Making up lost time : writing on the writing of history / Nancy F. Partner
History, language, and reading : waiting for Crillon / Dominick LaCapra
Realism, constructivism, and beyond. History and fiction as modes of comprehension / Louis Mink
Narrative and the real world : an argument for continuity / David Carr
Telling it like it was : historical narratives on their own terms / Andrew P. Norman
Postmodernism and the theory of history. Historiography and postmodernism / F. R. Ankersmit
Historiography and postmodernism : reconsiderations / Perez Zagorin
Reply to Professor Zagorin / F. R. Ankersmit
Representation and trauma. "Never again" is now / Hans Kellner
Is it possible to misrepresent the Holocaust? / Berel Lang
Gender, sexuality, sex. Is there a history of sexuality? / David M. Halperin
No sex, no gender / Nancy F. Partner
Objectivity. Objectivity is not neutrality : rhetoric versus practice in Peter Novick's That noble dream / Thomas Haskell
Objectivity and truth in history / J. L. Gorman
Historical knowledge and historical reality : a plea for "internal realism" / Chris Lorenz
Progress in historical studies / Raymond Martin.
Table of Contents
Narrativity. The historical text as literary artifact / Hayden White
Interpretation, history, and narrative / Noël Carroll
Writing and reading history. The rhetoric of history / J. H. Hexter
Making up lost time : writing on the writing of history / Nancy F. Partner
History, language, and reading : waiting for Crillon / Dominick LaCapra
Realism, constructivism, and beyond. History and fiction as modes of comprehension / Louis Mink
Narrative and the real world : an argument for continuity / David Carr
Telling it like it was : historical narratives on their own terms / Andrew P. Norman
Postmodernism and the theory of history. Historiography and postmodernism / F. R. Ankersmit
Historiography and postmodernism : reconsiderations / Perez Zagorin
Reply to Professor Zagorin / F. R. Ankersmit
Representation and trauma. "Never again" is now / Hans Kellner
Is it possible to misrepresent the Holocaust? / Berel Lang
Gender, sexuality, sex. Is there a history of sexuality? / David M. Halperin
No sex, no gender / Nancy F. Partner
Objectivity. Objectivity is not neutrality : rhetoric versus practice in Peter Novick's That noble dream / Thomas Haskell
Objectivity and truth in history / J. L. Gorman
Historical knowledge and historical reality : a plea for "internal realism" / Chris Lorenz
Progress in historical studies / Raymond Martin.