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The Writing of history : literary form and historical understanding
Title:
The Writing of history : literary form and historical understanding
Author:
Canary, Robert H.
Publication Information:
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Physical Description:
xv, 165 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction / Robert H. Canary and Henry Kozicki -- History and literature: reproduction or signification / Lionel Gossman -- The historical text as literary artifact / Hayden White -- Thucydides, tragedian / Kieran Egan -- Niebugrian irony and historical interpretation: the relationship between consensus and new left history / Richard Reinitz -- Narrative form as a cognitive instrument / Louis O. Mink.
ISBN:
9780299075705
Format :
Book