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S/H/145. Would you agree that historians are essentially storytellers? What implications does this have for the nature of history as a discipline?

WORDS:
1900
DATE:
2009
PRICE:
19.99 GBP

The paper examines whether historians can be regarded as storytellers arguing that the narrative of the past develops through a story. The negative implications of storytelling with regard to historians are discussed, the use of narrative devices by historians is considered.

 

KEYWORDS: Storytelling, historians, past,

 
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