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Mamluk Historiography Revisited - Narratological Perspectives
Stephan Conermann
Mamluk Historiography Revisited - Narratological Perspectives
Stephan Conermann
This volume discusses Mamluk historical texts with an emphasis on literary/stylistic analysis, basically ignoring issues of 'factuality' versus 'fictivity'. None of the authors set out to write 'fiction'; nor would their audience have received their accounts as such. The events depicted were a matter of historical record; but their meaning was geared both to contemporary and to general concerns. The fact of telling them is part and parcel of the historian's task; the means of telling them has to do with the historian's choice of style; and style is all-important in conveying meaning. Were these accounts not considered 'true', the purpose behind their telling and the meaning they convey, would, arguably, be lost; but were they not told in the most effective manner, their meaning might not be clearly grasped.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | August 13, 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9783847107224 |
Publishers | V&R Unipress |
Pages | 239 |
Dimensions | 155 × 236 × 18 mm · 476 g |
Language | English |