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The Names of History
On the Poetics of Knowledge
1992
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How can the language of history balance storytelling with truth-telling? Rancière considers this question in a meditation on the poetics of historical knowledge that attempts to identify the literary procedures by which historical discourse escapes literature and gives itself the status of a science.
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