Reporting in Prose

Reconsidering Ways of Writing History

Bibliographic Data

ID3969626
AuthorsAdrian Jones (0000-0002-0876-5687, La Trobe University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume12
Issue3
Pages311-336
Publication date2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe European Legacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10848770701287008
OpenAlexW2150890151
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This article reconsiders history's ways of reporting in prose. Ways of analysing and writing history so as to evoke a past are contrasted with ways of analysing and writing history so as to frame theses about a past. Academic norms now favour theses. It was not always so. This article contrasts very early European theories about writing prose, including key writings by Johannine Christians and by Heraclitus. Influenced by Martin Heidegger's existentialist phenomenology, this article reasserts the worth of the evocative in history by attempting to reprise its philosophical foundations and by reconstructing the place of prose in the history of ideas

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Existentialism · History of English · History of literature · Literature · Reprise · Classical Studies and Philology · Computer Science · French Literature and Criticism · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy

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