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Berghahn Books A Lovers Quarrel with the Past Romance Representation Reading 2012 Edition by Ranjan Ghosh
Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the 'non-historian' as an 'able' interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and refigurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive 'linguistic' turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical experience and where history stands in relation to our understanding of ethics, religion and the current state of global politics that underlines the manipulation and abuse of history. Table of contents :- AcknowledgementsForeword: Imagination and Fact: A Lover's QuarrelFrank AnkersmitThe Quarrel Begins...Chapter 1. Romancing the Past: Presence and Intangibilities of HistoryChapter 2. Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation: History and MemoryChapter 3. Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? The Historian's Ethics and the Ethics of Historical ReadingAfterword: The Quarrel Continues...Mark Bevir and Ranjan GhoshBibliographyNotes on contributorsIndex