History is a contemporary literature : manifesto for the social sciences /

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Main Authors: Jablonka, Ivan, 1973
Group Author: Bracher, Nathan, 1953; Jablonka, Ivan, 1973-
Published: Cornell University Press,
Publisher Address: Ithaca, New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
French
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Item Description: "Originally published under the title L'histoire est une littérature contemporaine : Manifeste pour les sciences sociales, by Ivan Jablonka. © Éditions du Seuil, 2014."--Title page verso.
Carrier Form: xiii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781501709876
1501709879
Index Number: H61
CLC: C3
Call Number: C3/J118
Contents: The new frontier : preface to the Cornell edition -- Introduction -- Part I. The great divide. Historians, orators, and writers -- The novel, father of history? -- History as science and "literary germs" -- The return of the literary repressed -- Part II. The historical way of reasoning. What is history? -- Writers of history-as-science -- Approaches to veridiction -- Fictions of method -- Part III. Literature and the social sciences. From nonfiction to literature-as-truth -- History, a literature under constraint? -- The research text -- On scholarship of the twenty-first century.