Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of HistoryHarvard University Press, 28. maj 2004 - 268 sider In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow. |
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... narrative elements work to discover and desig- nate an incomplete , wrecked world which is marked by rupture and loss but remains accessible through imaginative second - hand renditions of fairy tales , memories , and other journeyings ...
... narratives less authorative , but also more interesting and many - sided . An increasingly strange past came into view and became an object of both public and private desire . The sharp break between the past and present also expanded ...
... narratives . Gathering up poignant testimony and creating empathetic readerships , modern history recognizes the suffering of individuals , however selectively . The melancholy of history contains both these meanings : the sorrowful ...
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