Writing histories: imagination and narration
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In a new and updated edition, Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration is a book for anyone wanting to write histories that capture the imagination and challenge the intellect. It aims to show that historical narrative and imagination can work together to produce works of history that are a pleasure to read. Nine historians reflect on their work as writers, exploring some of the most difficult and interesting questions any history-writer faces: how to get started, how to find a 'voice', how...[Show more] ; In a new and updated edition, Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration is a book for anyone wanting to write histories that capture the imagination and challenge the intellect. It aims to show that historical narrative and imagination can work together to produce works of history that are a pleasure to read. Nine historians reflect on their work as writers, exploring some of the most difficult and interesting questions any history-writer faces: how to get started, how to find a 'voice',...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Curthoys, Ann | |
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dc.contributor.author | McGrath, Ann | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-27T01:50:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-04-27T01:50:03Z | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ann Curthoys and Ann McGrath eds. Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration, Monash University ePress: Clayton, 2009 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9780980464825 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/13323 | |
dc.description.abstract | In a new and updated edition, Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration is a book for anyone wanting to write histories that capture the imagination and challenge the intellect. It aims to show that historical narrative and imagination can work together to produce works of history that are a pleasure to read. Nine historians reflect on their work as writers, exploring some of the most difficult and interesting questions any history-writer faces: how to get started, how to find a 'voice', how to enliven a description or a narration, and how to find a worthwhile structure. Contributors also suggest how historians can convey multiple perspectives, 'show' rather than tell, foreground the research process, find inspiration from music, painting and landscape, and use literary techniques such as metaphor. The book will be a useful text for teachers and students in history-writing classes and informal groups. There are suggestions for group exercises, and advice on how to conduct writing workshops. Many historians, however, both students and established writers, will continue to write in relative isolation. This book is also intended for them. This updated edition of Writing Histories has a new introduction written by Ann Curthoys, and an updated bibliography. | |
dc.description.abstract | In a new and updated edition, Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration is a book for anyone wanting to write histories that capture the imagination and challenge the intellect. It aims to show that historical narrative and imagination can work together to produce works of history that are a pleasure to read. Nine historians reflect on their work as writers, exploring some of the most difficult and interesting questions any history-writer faces: how to get started, how to find a 'voice', how to enliven a description or a narration, and how to find a worthwhile structure. Contributors also suggest how historians can convey multiple perspectives, 'show' rather than tell, foreground the research process, find inspiration from music, painting and landscape, and use literary techniques such as metaphor. The book will be a useful text for teachers and students in history-writing classes and informal groups. There are suggestions for group exercises, and advice on how to conduct writing workshops. Many historians, however, both students and established writers, will continue to write in relative isolation. This book is also intended for them. | |
dc.format | 124 pages | |
dc.publisher | Monash University ePress | |
dc.rights | © 2009 | |
dc.rights | © copyright of individual chapters remains with the authors | |
dc.rights | © copyright of this collection: Ann Curthoys and Ann McGrath | |
dc.source | Writing histories: imagination and narration | |
dc.source.uri | http://www.epress.monash.edu/wh/about.html | |
dc.subject | Writing History | |
dc.title | Writing histories: imagination and narration | |
dc.type | Book | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
local.publisher.url | http://www.epress.monash.edu/ | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | McGrath, A., Australian Centre for Indigenous History, School of History, Research School of Social Sciences | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access via publisher website | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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