Beyond the Timeline: Resetting Historiography - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3111154742 ISBN 13 : 9783111154749

Editeur : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024

Synopsis

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 (Writing the History of Early Christianity. From Reception to Retrospection 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julia Seeberger; Sabine Schmolinsky; Markus Vinzent, Universität Erfurt.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3111154742
• ISBN 13: 9783111154749
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Seeberger Julia, Schmolinsky Sabine, Vinzent Markus
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