History writing is a form of literature that claims a unique correspondence to the processes of the real world. In this ambitious study, Albert Cook examines the literary dimensions of historiacal writing. He examines two seemingly contradictory constraints on historiography: the truth-claims of texts and the rhetoric of historical discourse. He shows how these constraints combine to enable, rather than prevent, the presentation of meaning in temporal sequences of events. Cook's scope encompasses the historigraphical ...
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History writing is a form of literature that claims a unique correspondence to the processes of the real world. In this ambitious study, Albert Cook examines the literary dimensions of historiacal writing. He examines two seemingly contradictory constraints on historiography: the truth-claims of texts and the rhetoric of historical discourse. He shows how these constraints combine to enable, rather than prevent, the presentation of meaning in temporal sequences of events. Cook's scope encompasses the historigraphical aspects of the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels, Homer, Thucydides, Tacitus, Gregory of Tours, Einhards, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Machiavelli Guicciardini, Gibbon, Ezra Pound, Foucault, Heidegger and Bradel. In the first half of his work he focuses on the practice of individual historians; in the second on particular philosophical or organizational techniques, in scriptural historians philosophical historians, or the self-critical historians of our own time. Though his concerns are systematic his analysis bears upon development questions in the practice of historiography over the past twenty-five hundred years. Thus, the book is not a history of historiography but a historicized perspective of its manifestations in different cultures. Its ambitious scope extends to questions of literary theory and criticism, literary history, rhetoric, semiology and narratology.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN:
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Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, x, 275 pp. Contents: Encompassing Instances: The Problematic Emergence of History Writing as a Separate Genre; Particular & General in Thucydides; Reference & Rhetoric in Historiography (Gibbon); Scale, Psychological Stereotyping, &Style in Tacitus' Annals; Temporalizing the Abstraction of Indeterminacy: Machiavelli & Guicciardini; The Crosscurrents of Time: Burckhardt & Michelet; Strategies of Inclusion: The Contractions & Expansions of Biblical History; The New Testament in its Historiographic Dimension; The Implications of Scope: Totalizing Explanations in History; The Strength of Partial Purchases: Kinds of Synecdoche in Modern History Writing.
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