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A Lover's Quarrel with the Past : Romance, Representation, Reading / Ranjan Ghosh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Making Sense of History ; 15Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857454843
  • 9780857454850
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • D16.8
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Series -- FOREWORD: Imagination and Fact -- INTRODUCTION. The Quarrel Begins ... -- CHAPTER 1. Romancing the Past -- CHAPTER 2. Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation -- CHAPTER 3. Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? -- Afterword: The Quarrel Continues … -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the ‘non-historian’ as an ‘able’ interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and refigurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive ‘linguistic’ turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical experience and where history stands in relation to our understanding of ethics, religion and the current state of global politics that underlines the manipulation and abuse of history.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Series -- FOREWORD: Imagination and Fact -- INTRODUCTION. The Quarrel Begins ... -- CHAPTER 1. Romancing the Past -- CHAPTER 2. Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation -- CHAPTER 3. Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? -- Afterword: The Quarrel Continues … -- Bibliography -- Index

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Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the ‘non-historian’ as an ‘able’ interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and refigurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive ‘linguistic’ turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical experience and where history stands in relation to our understanding of ethics, religion and the current state of global politics that underlines the manipulation and abuse of history.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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