A Lover's Quarrel with the Past

Romance, Representation, Reading
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-484-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghosh, Ranjan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Foreword: Imagination and Fact: A Lover’s Quarrel

Frank Ankersmit

The Quarrel Begins…

Chapter 1. Romancing the Past: Presence and Intangibilities of History

Chapter 2. Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation: History and Memory

Chapter 3. Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? The Historian’s Ethics and the Ethics of Historical Reading

Afterword: The Quarrel Continues.

Mark Bevir and Ranjan Ghosh

Bibliography

Notes on contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ghosh, Ranjan
Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal, India. He is widely published in leading international journals such as Oxford Literary Review, History and Theory, Parallax, Rethinking History, Comparatist, Comparative Drama, South Asia, SubStance, symploke, Angelaki, and others. He is author/editor of many books, including Globalizing Dissent (Routledge, 2008), Edward Said and The Literary, Social, and Political World (Routledge, 2009), Making Sense of the Secular (Routledge, 2012). His website is: http://www.ranjanghosh.com.