{"product_id":"singular-pasts-9780231203999","title":"Singular Pasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingular Pasts\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical account of the emergence of authorial subjectivity in historical writing, scrutinizing both its achievements and its shortcomings. Enzo Traverso considers a group of contemporary historians who reveal their emotional ties to their subjects and give their writing a literary flavor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do historians place themselves in history? \u003ci\u003eShould\u003c\/i\u003e the historical be personal? With his familiar acuity of vision, breadth of erudition, and generosity of thought, Enzo Traverso supplies a rich array of answers to these abiding questions—usually boundary-crossing, sometimes surprising, always grounded in a carefully considered politics of knowledge -- Geoff Eley, author of \u003ci\u003eNazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930-1945\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnzo Traverso has written an important book about first-person, more or less subjective and hybridized history—a much discussed and debated approach that has risen to prominence in the recent past. His erudite, insightful analysis extends more broadly to address questions about the very nature of history and its relations to other areas such as literature and film. It should interest not only historians but all humanists and social scientists as well as the general reader. -- Dominick LaCapra, author of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Others: Peoples, Animals, Pasts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this engaging book, Traverso guides us through the innumerable narrations of the past by contemporary writers and historians. Focusing on their interactions, he outlines what he deems a significant phenomenon in current historical writing: the growing intrusiveness of subjectivity and personal experience undermining a choral vision of the past. -- Carlotta Sorba, author of \u003ci\u003ePolitics and Sentiments in Risorgimento Italy: Melodrama and the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sweeping review of recent histories written in the first person, at the crossroads between history and literature, Traverso offers a lucid analysis of this subjective turn and a sharp critique of this new ‘I’ that speaks of and for the past: that of ‘Historian Narcissus.’ -- Thomas Dodman, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraverso's short and breezy survey...rings true. * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eSublimely readable. * Marx and Philosophy of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Writing in Third Person\u003cbr\u003e2. The Pitfalls of Objectivity\u003cbr\u003e3. Ego-History\u003cbr\u003e4. Short Inventory of “I” Narratives\u003cbr\u003e5. Discourse on Method\u003cbr\u003e6. Models: History Between Film and Literature\u003cbr\u003e7. History and Fiction\u003cbr\u003e8. Presentism\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400365449559,"sku":"9780231203999","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231203999.jpg?v=1730470505","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/singular-pasts-9780231203999","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}