Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse

by Robert F. Berkhofer Jr.

Book Overview

What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theories? That is the question considered in this long-awaited and pathbreaking book. Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., addresses the essential practical concern of contemporary historians; he offers a way actually to go about reading and writing histories in light of the many contesting theories.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674069080
• ISBN13: 9780674069084
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"