In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary
theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative. This book is both an …

With a broad, interdisciplinary command of the subject, Patrick H. Hutton considers the ideas
of philosophers, poets, and historians, focusing especially on the work of Giambattista Vico …

This book is the revised and expanded English version of the Dutch-language Nationaal
denken in Europa: een cultuurhistorischeschets (Amsterdam University Press, 1999). When …

A historian of early Christianity considers various theoretical critiques to examine the
problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Clark argues for a …

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was once a household name, but is now largely forgotten. This
book explores how Scott's work became an all-pervasive point of reference for cultural …

First Published in 2002. Myth theorists characterize myths as stories that possess the status
of sacred truth within one or more social groups. Flood discusses how political myth is an …

In the course of its approximately twenty-five years of existence, the concept of
postmodernism has evolved from a term of literary periodization into a name for the …

Erzählen ist eine grundlegende Form unseres Zugriffs auf Wirklichkeit. In den
verschiedensten Bereichen der alltäglichen Lebenswelt und nicht zuletzt auf den Gebieten …

The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical
introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas …

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the
postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibility has not been appropriately explained …