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Informationen zum Autor Tamsin Spargo Klappentext Questions about how and why we read the past continue to demand the attention of cultural critics. Reading the Past introduces key debates about history, historiography, and historicism which have transformed approaches to the past in departments of History and Literature. It includes influential and provocative theoretical essays as well as lively case studies and readings by literary critics and historians. The emphasis is on providing teachers and students with accessible yet challenging material to stimulate debate. Zusammenfassung Questions about how and why we read the past continue to demand the attention of cultural critics. Reading the Past introduces key debates about history, historiography, and historicism which have transformed approaches to the past in departments of History and Literature. It includes influential and provocative theoretical essays as well as lively case studies and readings by literary critics and historians. The emphasis is on providing teachers and students with accessible yet challenging material to stimulate debate. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological Debate; L. Kolakowski The Watercress Seller; C. Steedman From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison; M. Foucault Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin; R. Darnton Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison; S. Willis At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation; S. Greenblatt Facing History, or the Anxiety of Reading. Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' According to Greenblatt and Lyotard; J. Pieters Reading Cultural History; C. Belsey Theses on the Philosophy of History; W. Benjamin Camus' The Plague, or a Monument to Witnessing?; S. Felman Why Bother with the Past? Engaging with Some Issues Raised by the 'End of History as we Have Known it'; K. Jenkins from The Writing of History; M. de Certeau Summaries and Notes Glossary Suggestions for Further Reading Index. ...
