Fiction and the Social Contract

Genocide, Pornography, and the Deconstruction of History

Larry L Langford (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

175 Seiten

1998
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3849-8 (ISBN)

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Although postmodernism has questioned the distinction between history and fiction, it has not weakened it. History is a discourse with necessary consequences. Since Plato its distinction from fiction has been recognized as a fundamental aspect of the social contract and, therefore, as a matter of life and death. The authority to designate what is real leads ultimately to the authority to decide when it is morally permissible to take a human life. Controversies as diverse as the historians' debate on the Holocaust and the feminist critique of pornography take as their starting point the need to resist those who would treat the past as a type of fiction that can be rewritten to further the aims of political or sexual oppression.

The Author: Larry L. Langford received his Ph.D. in English from Rice University. He taught for several years at California State University, Fresno, before leaving to become president of Writing Support Services. He is widely published in professional journals on literary theory, drama, cinema, and the novel.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.1998
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory ; 9
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte/Kulturgeschichte • HC/Geschichte/Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8204-3849-9 / 0820438499
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3849-8 / 9780820438498
Zustand	Neuware