History And Imagination

Author : David J. Staley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000336146

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Historical Imagination by David J. Staley Pdf

Historical Imagination examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for the historian. We use "imagination" to refer to a mental skill that encompasses two different tasks: the reconstruction of previously experienced parts of the world and the creation of new objects and experiences with no direct connection to the actual world. In history, imagination means using the mind's eye to picture both the actual and inactual at the same time. All historical works employ at least some creative imagination, but an excess is considered "too much". Under what circumstances are historians permitted to cross this boundary into creative imagination and how far can they go? Supporting theory with relatable examples, Staley shows how historical works are a complex combination of mimetic and creative imagination and offers a heuristic for assessing this ratio in any work of history. Setting out complex theoretical concepts in an accessible and understandable manner and encouraging the reader to consider both the nature and limits of historical imagination, this is an ideal volume for students and scholars of the philosophy of history.

Author : John Cocking
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134932085

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Imagination by John Cocking Pdf

The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its influence on painting and music continues to be debated. It has been simultaneously feared as a dangerous, uncontrollable force and revered as the supreme visionary power. Cocking's Imagination is an exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The book opens with a treatment of imagination in the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Developments in the Middle Ages are traced, with particular attention to the parallel tradition in Islamic thought of the period and the book pursues the concept through the theories of Dante and the Neo-platonists to the High Renaissance. The manuscript was left unfinished on Professor Cocking's death in 1986 and has been edited by Penelope Murray, who adds an introductory essay. The book will be of particular value as a background to the explosion of interest in the imagination in the Romantic period.

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845454286

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The Modernist Imagination by Martin Jay Pdf

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.

Author : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012892470

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History and Imagination by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Pdf

Author : Kerwin Lee Klein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520924185

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Frontiers of Historical Imagination by Kerwin Lee Klein Pdf

The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World met the nonhistorical wilds of the New. It was not only the cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and nonhistorical defied and defined each other. Klein maintains that the idea of a collision between people with and without history still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes, resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them into the language used to describe the American frontier. In Klein's words, "We remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America' balances on history's shifting frontiers."

Author : Hugh Lloyd-Jones,Valerie Pearl,Blair Worden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002547084

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History & Imagination by Hugh Lloyd-Jones,Valerie Pearl,Blair Worden Pdf

Author : Ronald V. Morris
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610482981

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History and Imagination by Ronald V. Morris Pdf

In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship. By collaborating together in meaningful investigations into the past and reenacting history, students will become experts who interpret their findings, teach their peers, and relate their experiences to those of older students, neighbors, parents, and grandparents. The byproduct of this collaborative, intergenerational learning is that schools become community learning centers, just like museums and libraries, where families can go together in order to find out more about the topics that interest them. There is an incredible value in the shared and lived experiences of reenacting the past, of meeting people from different places and times: an authority and reality that textbooks cannot rival. By engaging elementary social studies students in living history, whether in the classroom, after school, or in partnership with local historical institutions, teachers are guaranteed to impress upon the students a special, desired understanding of place and time.

Author : Norman Lock
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1573661155

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History of the Imagination by Norman Lock Pdf

A History of the Imagination is a postmodern tale of adventure that reshapes the parameters of time and space, thought and action. In a metaphorical Africa, replete with nostalgia (but no dimensions), anything can happen and usually does. The narrator defends his magical departures, saying his is a history of possibilities, where fiction is "no less real for it's] being so." But when Darwin's corpse begins to lust after Colette and the African porters go on strike because the author hasn't acknowledged the important role they play, we are left to wonder: just how far is reality from dreams? Norman Lock juxtaposes remote times and places, historical facts and literary fictions, to create an absurdist collage reminiscent of Guy Davenport and Donald Barthelme. In this world it is not impossible to sail from Mombasa to Cinncinati, or to set out from the City of Radiant Objects, where "things are free of the obligation to signify," or to go hunting icebergs in a quest to avenge the Titanic at last. Borne aloft by Wilbur Wright, Jules Verne, Ziegfield, and Houdini, we find ourselves lost again in a "seam in the world...between History and Imagination."

Author : John Comaroff,Jean Comaroff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429719318

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Ethnography And The Historical Imagination by John Comaroff,Jean Comaroff Pdf

Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways? Addressing these questions, the essays in this volume–several never before published–work toward an "imaginative sociology," demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made and signified, forgotten and remade.

Author : R. Cheran,Darshan Ambalavanar,Chelvanayakam Kanaganayakam
Publisher : Tsar Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015073863709

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History and Imagination by R. Cheran,Darshan Ambalavanar,Chelvanayakam Kanaganayakam Pdf

This collection of essays covers a broad range of topics concerning Tamil culture all over the world. Tamils, originating in South India and Sri Lanka, constitute a large part of the diasporic South Asians in Canada, as well as the United States, Australia, and Europe. This book is therefore of special relevance to the concerns of multiculturalism and globalization. Including essays by Layne Little, Archana Venkatesan, Susan Schomburg, Anand Pandian, E Annamalai, V Geetha, Ravi Vaitheespara, Chelva Kanaganayakam, Joseph A Chandrakanthan, and R Cheran.

Author : Donald R. Kelley,David Harris Sacks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521590698

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The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain by Donald R. Kelley,David Harris Sacks Pdf

Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.

Author : Stephanie Porras
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271084572

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Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination by Stephanie Porras Pdf

The question of how to understand Bruegel’s art has cast the artist in various guises: as a moralizing satirist, comedic humanist, celebrator of vernacular traditions, and proto-ethnographer. Stephanie Porras reorients these apparently contradictory accounts, arguing that the debate about how to read Bruegel has obscured his pictures’ complex relation to time and history. Rather than viewing Bruegel’s art as simply illustrating the social realities of his day, Porras asserts that Bruegel was an artist deeply concerned with the past. In playing with the boundaries of the familiar and the foreign, history and the present, Bruegel’s images engaged with the fraught question of Netherlandish history in the years just prior to the Dutch Revolt, when imperial, religious, and national identities were increasingly drawn into tension. His pictorial style and his manipulation of traditional iconographies reveal the complex relations, unique to this moment, among classical antiquity, local history, and art history. An important reassessment of Renaissance attitudes toward history and of Renaissance humanism in the Low Countries, this volume traces the emergence of archaeological and anthropological practices in historical thinking, their intersections with artistic production, and the developing concept of local art history.

Author : Leo Treitler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0674591291

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Music and the Historical Imagination by Leo Treitler Pdf

Leo Treitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical analysis. In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be. His aim is an understanding of the music of the past not only in its own historical context but also as we apprehend it now, and as we assimilate it to our current interests and concerns. He elucidates his views through unique new interpretations of major works from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Author : Martin A. Ruehl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036994

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The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination by Martin A. Ruehl Pdf

Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.

Author : Светлана Евдокимова,Professor of Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature Chair Department of Slavic Studies Svetlana Evdokimova
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300070233

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Pushkin's Historical Imagination by Светлана Евдокимова,Professor of Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature Chair Department of Slavic Studies Svetlana Evdokimova Pdf

This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writings on the subject of history - writings that have strongly influenced Russians' views of themselves and their past. Through new readings of his drama Boris Godunov; such narrative poems as Poltava, The Bronze Horseman, and Count Nulin; prose fiction, including The Captain's Daughter and The Blackamoor of Peter the Great; lyrical poems; and a variety of nonfictional texts, the author presents Pushkin not only as a progenitor of Russian national mythology but also as an original historical and political thinker.