Beyond the Great Story
The Belknap Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-06908-4 (ISBN)
What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theories? That is the question considered in this long-awaited and pathbreaking book. Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., addresses the essential practical concern of contemporary historians; he offers a way actually to go about reading and writing histories in light of the many contesting theories.
Berkhofer ranges through a vast archive of recent writings by a broad range of authors. He explicates the opposing paradigms and their corresponding dilemmas by presenting in dialogue form the positions of modernists and postmodernists, formalists and deconstructionists, textualists and contextualists. Poststructuralism, the New Historicism, the New Anthropology, the New Philosophy of History--these and many other approaches are illuminated in new ways in these comprehensive, interdisciplinary explorations.
From them, Berkhofer arrives at a clear vision of the forms historical discourse might take, advocates a new approach to historical criticism, and proposes new forms of historical representation that encompass multiculturalism, poetics, and reflexive (con)textualization. He elegantly blends traditional and new methodology; assesses what the "revival of the narrative" actually entails; considers the politics of disciplinary frameworks; and derives coherent new approaches to writing, teaching, reviewing, and reading histories.
Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., was Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His many publications include Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response, 1787–1962; A Behavioral Approach to Historical Analysis; and The White Man’s Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present.
Preface The Postmodernist Challenge Interdisciplinary Challenges Debating the Implications A Problematic Defense Texts and Contexts Clio at the Crossroads Narratives and Historicization The Paradigm of Normal History Contextualism as a Methodology The Multiple Roles of Narrativization Great Stories and the Search for a Larger Context Historical Representations and Truthfulness Interpretations and Historical Realism The Fallacy of a Single Right or Best Interpretation The Insufficiency of Facts Representation and Referentiality as Interpretive Structures The Role of Meta-Understanding History versus Fiction Contrasting Views of History as a Text Interpretation, Metahistory, and Truthfulness The New Rhetoric, Poetics, and Criticism Toward Historical Criticism A Formal Taxonomy of Textual Analysis Beyond Style The New Rhetoric of History A New Poetics of Historical Criticism Emplotment: Historicizing Time The Time of Normal History Textual or Discourse Time versus Chronological Time History versus Chronology: The Problem of Patterning The Nature and Uses of Emplotment Beginnings, Middles, and Endings Emplotment as Meaning and Lesson Toward a Poetics of Emplotment Narrativity and the Great Past Partiality as Voice and Viewpoint The Problems of Partiality The Historian in the Text Voice and Viewpoint Representing Multiple Viewpoints and Voices New Viewpoints on History Changing the Representation of Otherness The Question of Representativeness Multiculturalism and Normal History The Reorientation of Anthropology Toward a Dialogic Ideal Politics and Paradigms The Politics of Historical Practice The Politics of Viewpoint Foundations of Authority The Politics of Paradigms The Politics of the Medium versus the Message Reflexive (Con)Textualization A Basic Guide Theories, Models, Images Toward New Historicizations Transforming Historical Practice Notes Acknowledgments Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.1997 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 6 line illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 517 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-06908-0 / 0674069080 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-06908-4 / 9780674069084 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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