| Description |
1 online resource (221 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Approaches to History |
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Routledge approaches to history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Integrity and Historical Research; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Concept of Integrity; 2. 'Who Would Want to Believe That, Except in the Service of the Bleakest Realism?' Historical Fiction and Ethics; 3. Transgressive Legacies of Memory: The Concept of Techné in Primo Levi's The Periodic Table; 4. Fictions and Histories; 5. The Evil that Men Do Lives after Them, and the Good Is Oft Interred within Their Bones |
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6. When Is It Time for 'Writing with an Untrammelled Pen'? Reconciling the South Australian Settler Colony with Its Violent Past in Simpson Newland's Historical Novel, Paving the Way: A Romance of the Australian Bush7. Using Lives: Working with Life Stories in a Time of Revolution; 8. Integrity and Oral History: Choices Facing the Oral Historian; 9. 'Nude Scenes of Lovemaking and Violation on Stage and Screen': Heloise and Abelard, Old Bones and the Uses of the Past; 10. Integrity at the Intersection: Peripheries, Herstories and Film; 11. Historians in Fiction and Film; Notes on Contributors |
| Summary |
There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The first chapter discusses the concept of integrity. The chapters that follow reflect on this philosophical treatment in the light of fiction and film that deals with history in a number of ways. How should writers and filmmakers use lives? Can, and may, people who are now dead and who may have lived l |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sutherland, Emily
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| ISBN |
9780203804025 |
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0203804023 |
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