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Book Synopsis'What is history'? From Thucydides to Toynbee, historians and non-historians alike have wondered how to answer this question. This book focuses on developments over the years in historical writing, not least the renewed interest in the status of narrative itself and the presence of the authorial 'voice'.
Table of ContentsPhotographic Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors and Contributors Introduction: Describing Redescriptions by Hans Kellner 1: Historicity in an age of Reality-Fictions by Nancy F. Partner 2: Turning Linguistic: History and Theory and History and Theory, 1960-1975 by Richard T. Vann 3: The Decline and Fall of the Analytical Philosophy of History by Arthur C. Danto 4: Intimate Images: Subjectivity and History - Stael, Michelet and Tocqueville by Linda Orr 5: Theory of a Practice: Historical Enunciation and the Annales School by Philippe Carrard 6: Relevance, Revision and the Fear of Long Books by Ann Rigney 7: 'Grand Narrative' and the Discipline of History by Allan Megill 8: A Point of View on Viewpoints in Historical Practice by Robert F. Berkhofer 9: History as Competence and Performance: Notes on the Ironic Museum by Stephen Bann 10: Statements, Texts and Pictures by Frank Ankersmit References Index
