Threads and Traces - True false fictive
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True false fictive
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher: University of California Press
Place of printing: Berkeley - Los Angeles - London
Year of publication: 2012
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.
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Specimen in good condition. Dust jacket and cuts with traces of dust. Slight yellowing of the pages. Text in English. English text. Book in good condition.
ISBN Code: 0520259610
EAN: 9780520259614
Pages: VII, 328
Format: Hardback with dust jacket
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 24
Width: 16
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Translation by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi. English text.
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