A Lover's Quarrel with the Past : : Romance, Representation, Reading / / Ranjan Ghosh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Ghosh, Ranjan,
• MitwirkendeR: Ankersmit, Frank,; Bevir, Mark,; Ghosh, Ranjan,; Rüsen, Jörn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Making Sense of History ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface to the Series --; FOREWORD: Imagination and Fact --; INTRODUCTION. The Quarrel Begins ... --; CHAPTER 1. Romancing the Past --; CHAPTER 2. Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation --; CHAPTER 3. Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? --; Afterword: The Quarrel Continues … --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857454850; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857454850
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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.