Reading the Past: Literature and History

ISBN-13: 9780333771211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 200 str.

Tamsin Spargo

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

TAMSIN SPARGO is Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.