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Author Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio

Title Clio's Laws : On History and Language
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages)
Contents The laws of history -- Poetry and history -- The historical imagination -- Reading history today -- Celebrating history : between ser and estar -- Self-history and autobiography -- Six life stories by heart -- Polyglotism and monolingualism -- Amar queriendo como en otro tiempo : language, memory, and boleros -- Wicked tongue (extracts)
Summary Offering a unique perspective on the very notions and practices of storytelling, history, memory, and language, Clio?s Laws collects ten essays (some new and some previously published in Spanish) by a revered voice in global history. Taking its title from the Greek muse of history, this opus considers issues related to the historian?s craft, including nationalism and identity, and draws on Tenorio-Trillo?s own lifetime of experiences as a historian with deep roots in both Mexico and the United States. By turns deeply ironic, provocative, and experimental, and covering topics both lowbrow and highbrow, the essays form a dialogue with Clio about idiosyncratic yet profound matters. Tenorio-Trillo presents his own version of an ars historica (what history is, why we write it, and how we abuse it) alongside a very personal essay on the relationship between poetry and history. Other selections include an exploration of the effects of a historian?s autobiography, a critique of history?s celebratory obsession, and a guide to reading history in an era of internet searches and too many books. A self-described exile, Tenorio-Trillo has produced a singular tour of the historical imagination and its universal traits
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Subject Historiography.
History -- Methodology.
History -- Philosophy.
Literature and history.
Language and history.
historiography.
HISTORY / Historiography
Historiography
History -- Methodology
History -- Philosophy
Language and history
Literature and history
Form Electronic book
Author Fieweger, Mary Ellen
ISBN 147731928X
9781477319284