Ann Curthoys

Is History Fiction?

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The 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 postm… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Docker, John

ISBN: 978-1-74223-171-6
EAN: 9781742231716
Produktnummer: 23102542
Verlag: Unsw Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 340 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.0 cm 549 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 549

Über den Autor

Ann Curthoys is an honorary professor at the University of Sydney,and was previously Manning Clark Professor of History at ANU.She has written about many aspects of Australian history, and onquestions of historical theory and historical writing. In the 1980s sheco-edited two books on Australia's Cold War and another on Australianhistory since 1945. More recently Ann has been working onPaul Robeson's visit to Australia in 1960, exploring the connectionsbetween Cold War politics and the changing nature of race relationsin Australian society. She is author of Freedom Ride: A freedom riderremembers (2002); with John Docker, Is History Fiction? (2005); andwith Ann McGrath, How to Write History that People Want to Read(2009).