History at the limit of world-history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | Italian Academy lectures
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=78600 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Italian Academy Lectures; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Historicality and the Prose of the World; 3. The Prose of History, or The Invention of World-History; 4. Experience, Wonder, and the Pathos of Historicality; 5. Epilogue: The Poverty of Historiography-a Poet's Reproach; Appendix: Historicality in Literature by Rabindranath Tagore; Notes; Glossary; Index.