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Is History Fiction? Paperback – 1 April 2010

by Ann Curthoys (Author), John Docker (Author)
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The relationship between history and fiction has always been a controversial one. Can we ever know that a historical narrative is giving us a true account of what actually happened? Provocative and fascinating, this book is an original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is – and might be – written. It traces History's doubleness and divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides, right up to the key figures of historical reflection, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Benedetto Croce, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Hayden White. The authors explore the challenges posed by postmodernism to history and the literary conventions of most historical writing. In this second edition they bring their history of history up to the present in their study of the History Wars and new approaches to world history and environmental history.

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    15.6 x 1.93 x 23.39 cm
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    1742231713
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    978-1742231716
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ UNSW Press; 2nd edition (1 April 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1742231713
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1742231716
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 1.93 x 23.39 cm
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Ann Curthoys

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Ann Curthoys was born in Sydney, Australia in September 1945. She grew up in Broken Hill and Newcastle, New South Wales, and completed a BA degree at the University of Sydney and a PhD at Macquarie University, Sydney. After teaching for many years at the University of Technology, Sydney and the Australian National University, she is now a professorial research fellow at the University of Sydney. She has written many academic articles and books in the fields of Australian history, and on historiography and historical writing. She lives with her husband, John, near Bondi Beach.

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Ellen Sweeney
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Reading, and Reading Twice.
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While the content is not quite as controversial as its title suggests, Is History Fiction? provides a thoughtful review and analysis of how the narrative literary form of Western historiography from Herodotus and Thucydides through the 20th Century has deftly and responsively integrated fact and fictive elements. The authors articulate the critical importance of the interaction between those two elements, as historians seek to demonstrate and convey to readers the richness, delight and fascination with history, historical thought, and the quest for historical truth. By taking a literary perspective to the question of historical truth, it provides an eminently readable, enjoyable and reflective introduction to the works of a broad range of historians and their arguments, inspiring academic and non-academic readers to reconsider and further explore a number of them.
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bryce franklyn
4.0 out of 5 stars Easy read about a complex subject.
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Ellen Sweeney's thoughtful review is spot on. I would only add how refreshing it was to discover how free such a scholarly work was of academic jargon. Indeed, both the "survey" approach and writing style are nothing if not accessible, even to the lay reader. The title is somewhat misleading, since the question never is definitively answered by the authors, but that is only owing to their consideration of it being even-handed to a fault. This is an excellent introduction to its subject--the history of history and historiography--and an edifying read for anyone even mildly interested in understanding the different ways the production of historical works have evolved, or failed to, over time.
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