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Driven by their curiosity about how emotional catalysts function in history, the volume’s authors offer a collection of texts that give insight into the emotional aspects of particular events, processes, texts, and works of history; they show how history happens because of emotions.

The papers gathered in the present collection investigate time and temporality from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives: literary or film studies, postcolonial theory, physics, philosophy, psychology, urban studies, history and gender studies. This wide spectrum of scholarly approaches encompasses chapters dealing with the convergences of time and the human psyche; time and the body; time and memory; time and trauma; time and change; time and cultural reproduction; time and language; time and the city; and time and identity. It transpires that the imaginary refigurations of time more...

Kryptohistorie. Ukryte i utajone narracje w historii to tom, w którym historycy, filologowie i inni badacze spotykają się na polu badań nad tajemnicą, tajnością i teoriami spiskowymi w historii i w narracjach około- lub pseudohistorycznych. Z jednej strony rozważają oni znaczenie owych tematów w historii oraz ich konsekwencje społeczne i polityczne, a z drugiej strony pytają o kryteria historyczności wydarzeń oraz o wagę mechaniki narracji dla konstruowania opowieści i historii. W rozumieniu kryptohistorycznym zatem na szczególną uwagę zasługują - w szerokim rozumieniu...

Cryptohistories is a collection of essays which provides a meeting ground for historians and cultural scholars analysing discussions of cryptic discourses in history and in historical narratives with roots in the mysterious. The focus here is on history as a subjective narrative, as a conscious construct and as manipulation. Equally important for all the contributors brought together in this book is the mechanics of the rise, popularity and apparent necessity of such narrative strategies. The essays address a variety of issues revolving around the study of cryptic aspects of discourses,...