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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 8, 2010 9:20:14 GMT -6
OK, no one liked my last request, so let me try another.
Our Czech friend would like to locate a current historiography of the battle. Tal Luther's is too old. I heard that Tom Swinford produced one not long ago, but I don't think I've seen it.
Suggestions?
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Post by Dark Cloud on Apr 8, 2010 11:24:43 GMT -6
To immediately remove any delusional supposition this reply might be entirely relevant: I don't know. I'll grant a few minutes for consciousness to return, a sip of a refreshing beverage or another restorative, and a cold compress applied to the forehead. I'll wait. That said, 'historiography' is one of those words that annoys me, in that sometimes it seemingly can mean a mere bibliography or just a listing of works relevant to an incident between two dates (which I'm guessing, based on your first request, is his/her need), and sometimes it means a completed study of those works and the tools they used complete with analysis of symbols and language and all that - which I find very interesting and entirely relevant to the LBH but different enough from the first meaning as to demand a separate word. So interesting, it was sorta broached back in 2007 if not before here on this forum: lbha.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Queries&action=display&thread=754&page=1Fussell was referenced: “…what style is appropriate for history….how are actual events deformed by the application to them of metaphor, rhetorical comparison, prose rhythm, assonance, alliteration, allusion, and sentence structures and connectives implying clear causality?”
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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 12, 2010 22:34:06 GMT -6
Scanning that old thread brought nightmarish flashbacks. Thanks, though.
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