Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	V&R unipress
Buchreihe	:	Mamluk Studies
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	13. 08. 2018
Seiten	:	206
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	232 mm
Breite	:	155 mm
ISBN	:	9783847107224
Sprache	:	Englisch
Illustrationen	:	mit 3 Abbildungen

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Produktinformation

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This volume discusses Mamluk historical texts with an emphasis on literary/stylistic analysis, basically ignoring issues of ‘factuality’ versus ‘fictivity’. None of the authors set out to write ‘fiction’; nor would their audience have received their accounts as such. The events depicted were a matter of historical record; but their meaning was geared both to contemporary and to general concerns. The fact of telling them is part and parcel of the historian’s task; the means of telling them has to do with the historian’s choice of style; and style is all-important in conveying meaning. Were these accounts not considered ‘true’, the purpose behind their telling and the meaning they convey, would, arguably, be lost; but were they not told in the most effective manner, their meaning might not be clearly grasped.

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