Threads and Traces : True False Fictive.
Title:
Threads and Traces : True False Fictive.
Author:
Ginzburg, Carlo.
ISBN:
9780520949843
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (250 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Description and Citation -- 2. The Conversion of the Jews of Minorca (a.d. 417-418) -- 3. Montaigne, Cannibals, and Grottoes -- 4. Proofs and Possibilities: Postscript to Natalie Zemon Davis, Th e Return of Martin Guerre -- 5. Paris, 1647: A Dialogue on Fiction and History -- 6. The Europeans Discover (or Rediscover) the Shamans -- 7. Tolerance and Commerce: Auerbach Reads Voltaire -- 8. Anacharsis Interrogates the Natives: A New Reading of an Old Best Seller -- 9. Following the Tracks of Israël Bertuccio -- 10. The Bitter Truth: Stendhal's Challenge to Historians -- 11. Representing the Enemy: On the French Prehistory of the Protocols -- 12. Just One Witness: The Extermination of the Jews and the Principle of Reality -- 13. Details, Early Plans, Microanalysis: Thoughts on a Book by Siegfried Kracauer -- 14. Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It -- 15. Witches and Shamans -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? How do we grapple with the historical conventions that inform, in different ways, all written documents? In his answers, Ginzburg peels away layers of subsequent readings and interpretations that envelop every text to make a larger argument about history and fiction. Interwoven with compelling autobiographical references, Threads and Traces bears moving witness to Ginzburg's life as a European Jew, the abiding strength of his scholarship, and his deep engagement with the historian's craft.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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