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Main Author: Ginzburg, Carlo
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Language:English
Italian
Published: University of California Press, 2012
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physical 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
publishDate 2012
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spelling Ginzburg, Carlo. 8161
Filo e le tracce. English
Threads and traces : true, false, fictive / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Translated from the Italian.
"Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? How do we grapple with the historical conventions that inform, in different ways, all written documents? In his answers, Ginzburg peels away layers of subsequent readings and interpretations that envelop every text to make a larger argument about history and fiction. Interwoven with compelling autobiographical references, Threads and Traces bears moving witness to Ginzburg's life as a European Jew, the abiding strength of his scholarship, and his deep engagement with the historian's craft"--Provided by publisher.
"This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburgʼs latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians."--Provided by publisher.
Historiography Philosophy. 8162
Literature and history. 8163
History Errors, inventions, etc. 8164
Truth. 8165
Collective memory. 8166
spellingShingle Ginzburg, Carlo
Threads and traces : true, false, fictive /
Historiography Philosophy. 8162
Literature and history. 8163
History Errors, inventions, etc. 8164
Truth. 8165
Collective memory. 8166
title Threads and traces : true, false, fictive /
title_alt Filo e le tracce.
title_auth Threads and traces : true, false, fictive /
title_full Threads and traces : true, false, fictive / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.
title_fullStr Threads and traces : true, false, fictive / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.
title_full_unstemmed Threads and traces : true, false, fictive / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.
title_short Threads and traces :
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topic Historiography Philosophy. 8162
Literature and history. 8163
History Errors, inventions, etc. 8164
Truth. 8165
Collective memory. 8166
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Truth.
Collective memory.
Philosophy.
Errors, inventions, etc.
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