E-Book, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 16, 296 Seiten
Seeberger / Schmolinsky / Vinzent Beyond the Timeline: Resetting Historiography
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-116002-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 16, 296 Seiten
Reihe: SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit
ISBN: 978-3-11-116002-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Different from literary works (prose, drama etc.) with techniques like montage and contemporary media (film, documentaries, video games, internet) where time-lines are being questioned through flashbacks and flashwords, historiography seems to have resisted such challenges. Most historiographical works (biographies, scholarly studies) still adhere to chronological narratives, even though the boundaries between history and literary fiction have been blurred over the past decades.
Responding to 20th/21st c. attempts like Walter Benjamin’s prophetic historian, this volume asks: How to write history without following the chronologically oriented trajectory of time? The interdisciplinary contributions from a broad range of history (medieval, modern, music, sciences), sociology, life sciences, genocide research go back to a symposium that responded to a publication of Markus Vinzent ( of 2019, Cambridge University Press). The scholars engage with the idea of retrospection as a method of critical historiography.
Writing retrospectively is not simply a matter of presentism, reversing chronology, it disrupts continuities and teleologies and opens creative futures.
Zielgruppe
Historiker/-innen, Religions-, Musik- und Kulturwissenschaftler/- / Scholars in the fields of history, religious studies, musicology,
