Description
In four Jerusalem lectures delivered in honour of Menahem Stern, Carlo Ginzburg examines the relationship between rhetoric and historiography. Drawing on very different texts, including Aristotle’s Poetics, Valla’s demonstration of the falsity of the Donation of Constantine, Jesuit historiographical records from the early eighteenth century, and Proust’s commentary on Flaubert’s style, he shows that rhetoric concerns not only ornament but also historical understanding and truth. Together with the author, readers explore the territory between classical positivist historiography and the postmodern approach, for which historical description is merely one of an infinite number of possible stories, relying less on truth than on the narrator’s rhetorical skill. The book is in Czech.
Information
Author: Ginzburg Carlo
Language: Czech
Publication date: October 1, 2013
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Karolinum
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Textbooks and languages, Books, History and facts
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 162
ISBN/EAN: 9788024620794