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Rethinking Historical Distance Kenneth A. Loparo

Rethinking Historical Distance By Kenneth A. Loparo

Rethinking Historical Distance by Kenneth A. Loparo

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The idea of distance is one of the defining principles of modern historical method. This volume gives the discussion of historical distance new breadth, flexibility and importance by incorporating diverse modes of representation including photography, sculpture, painting, musical theatre, and fashion.

Rethinking Historical Distance Summary

Rethinking Historical Distance by Kenneth A. Loparo

The idea of distance is one of the defining principles of modern historical method. This volume gives the discussion of historical distance new breadth, flexibility and importance by incorporating diverse modes of representation including photography, sculpture, painting, musical theatre, and fashion.

About Kenneth A. Loparo

Bain Attwood, Professor, Monash University, Australia Peter Burke, former Professor, University of Cambridge, UK Timothy Campbell, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, USA Ivan Gaskell, Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York City, USA Matthew Lauzon, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, USA Jurgen Pieters, Professor, Ghent University, Belgium Adam Phillips, British child psychotherapist, literary critic and essayist Ruth B. Phillips, Professor, Carleton University, Canada MG Sullivan, former Curator, Ashmolean Museum, UK Carolyn Williams, Professor, Rutgers University, USA

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Re-thinking Historical Distance; Mark Salber Phillips PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. A Short History of Distance; Peter Burke 2. Historical Distance, Historical Judgment; Ivan Gaskell 3. The Travels of Fiction: Literature, Distance, and the Representation of the Past; Jurgen Pieters PART II: BIOGRAPHIES AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 4. Biography and the Question of Historical Distance; Barbara Caine 5. Close-Ups; Adam Phillips PART III: THEATRE AND ITS DISTANCES 6. 'Time Has Rendered These Allusions Natural': Re-enacting the Saint-Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1789; Matthew Lauzon 7. Parody and Re-enactment in the Comic Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; Carolyn Williams PART IV: VISUAL STUDIES: SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FASHION 8. Sir Francis Chantrey: Sculpture, History, and Geology; M.G. Sullivan 9. Photographic Calculations: Intimate Trauma and Cool Distance in Post-war Japan; Julia Adeney Thomas 10. Fashion, Microcosm, and Romantic Historical Distance; Timothy Campbell PART V: DISTANCE AND POST-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVES 11. 'Distance' and Settler Australia's Black History; Bain Attwood 12. Closing the Distance: Time, Historicity, and Contemporary Indigenous Art; Ruth B. Phillips

Additional information

NPB9780230284081
9780230284081
0230284086
Rethinking Historical Distance by Kenneth A. Loparo
Kenneth A. Loparo
Re-Enactment History
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-11-06
262
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