The Ethics of Narrative : Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007
Intro -- Foreword -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- 1. The Problem with Modern Patriotism -- 2. Symbols and Allegories of Temporality -- 3. The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity -- 4. Catastrophe, Communal Memory, and Mythic Discourse:...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press,
2022
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| Sujets: | Literature and history History Historiography Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (295 pages) |
| Résumé: | Intro -- Foreword -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- 1. The Problem with Modern Patriotism -- 2. Symbols and Allegories of Temporality -- 3. The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity -- 4. Catastrophe, Communal Memory, and Mythic Discourse: The Uses of Myth in the Reconstruction of Society -- 5. Figura and Historical Subalternation -- 6. The Westernization of World History -- 7. On Transcommunality and Models of Community -- 8. Anomalies of the Historical Museum, or, History as Utopian Space -- 9. Figural Realism in Witness Literature: On Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo -- 10. The Elements of Totalitarianism: On Hannah Arendt -- 11. The Metaphysics of Western Historiography: Cosmos, Chaos, and Sequence in Historiological Representation -- 12. Historicality as a Trope of Political Discourse: Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics -- 13. Exile and Abjection -- 14. The Dark Side of Art History: On Melancholy -- 15. Against Historical Realism: A Reading of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace -- Index. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (295 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781501765056 1501765051 9781501764738 150176473X |