‘All good stories’: historical fiction in pedagogy, theory, and scholarship

Hower, Jessica S.

doi:10.1080/13642529.2018.1456096

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“…For example, White (1978, p. 82) criticizes historians' "reluctance to consider historical narratives as what they are-verbal fictions". The acceptability of literature as a primary source for academic history furthered this confluence of history and fiction (Hower 2018) and, as Humphrey remarks (2020, p. 95), the once-acclaimed history/ fiction division is now recognized by all historians as "an oversimplification". Therefore, the concept of historical empathy may be applied, beyond the strictly historical (in the Rankean sense), namely "real, non-fictional", situations, to literary texts referring to past human experience.…”

Section: Literary Reading and Empathy In Medicinementioning

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“…The convergence of history and fiction was introduced by postmodern approaches to history which challenged the empirical Rankean history and its assumptions about the objective reconstruction of facts and the diametrical opposition between history and fiction (for example, White 1978White , 2005. The main objection to Ranke's principles lies in the incompleteness and unreliability of the surviving record (Hower 2018;McCullagh 2004). Boldt (2014) following Jenkins (2009) demonstrates that only a fraction of what has occurred in the past (about 1%) can be recounted.…”

Section: Literary Reading and Empathy In Medicinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the selection and interpretation of evidence depend on historians' judgment and thus can only be arbitrary and subjective (a brief review is found in Boadu 2020). Thus as Boldt (2014, p. 472) acknowledges "Ranke's approach to history worked in the nineteenth and early twentieth century but historical writing and the nature of history has moved on" (see also Hower 2018). According to the postmodern approaches historians must consider "the assertion that our representation of the past has no greater claim to truth than that of novelists and poets" (Green and Troup 2016, p. 206).…”

Section: Literary Reading and Empathy In Medicinementioning

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Historical empathy and medicine: Pathography and empathy in Sophocles’ Philoctetes

Kampourelli

2022

Med Health Care and Philos

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The aim of this article is to explore the ways in which the engagement with Greek tragedy may contribute fruitfully to the unfolding of empathy in medical students and practitioners. To reappraise the general view that classical texts are remote from modern experience because of the long distance between the era they represent and today, I propose an approach to Greek tragedy viewed through the lens of historical empathy, and of the association between past situations and similar contemporary experiences, in particular. After a brief examination of the concept of empathy, its links with literary reading, and the discussion of these interrelations within the training of narrative medicine, and narrative ethics in particular, the focus turns to selected parts of Sophocles' Philoctetes, such as the disease scene-an ancient example of pathography. Here Neoptolemus' empathy for Philoctetes' situation and its consequences are explored with specific interest in the modern readers' affective response in connection with their own experiences in medical practice. Neoptolemus' ethical conflict, which is resolved by his decision to care for Philoctetes, and the problematic nature of this attitude are both indicative of the aim of Greek tragedy to problematize universal issues and thus to point towards the instability of human life and the fluidity of human nature. Realizing through historical empathy the precariousness of human existence may lead to a better understanding and hence better care for others and open new perspectives in the development of empathy within the context of contemporary medical education and practice.

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Section: Literary Reading and Empathy In Medicinementioning

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Section: Literary Reading and Empathy In Medicinementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literary Reading and Empathy In Medicinementioning

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Kampourelli

2022

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“…Kajian-kajian di atas sangat penting, tetapi pemakaian karya sastra sebagai sumber sejarah belum banyak mendapatkan perhatian, meskipun karya populer seperti komik sudah dimanfaatkan (Printina, 2017). Pembelajaran sejarah di Indonesia terkesan belum memanfaatkan karya sastra khususnya cerpen, padahal teks-teks sastra terbukti sangat efektif sebagai sumber belajar seperti yang telah dicontohkan dalam pembelajaran sejarah Amerika (Stoddard, 2012;VanSledright & Kelly, 1998), Australia (Clark, 2004), dan Eropa (Einhaus, 2016;Hower, 2019).…”

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Theresia²

2021

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Penelitian ini mengkaji tiga cerita pendek Amerika yang berlatar tiga zaman sejarah yang berbeda: “The Minister’s Black Veil” oleh Nathaniel Hawthorne (Kaum Puritan di New England), “Désirée’s Baby” oleh Kate Chopin (Perbudakan di Louisiana sebelum Perang Saudara), dan Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie” (Pernikahan antar ras di Amerika tahun 1970-an). Dengan menggunakan metode close reading, penelitian kualitatif ini menganalisis ketiga cerpen yang menjadi data primer dan mengkontekstualisasikannya dengan sejarah Amerika, biografi pendek masing-masing pengarang, dan teks-teks yang relevan yang diperlakukan sebagai data sekunder. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pertama, ketiga cerpen menggambarkan intoleransi, krisis identitas, dan rasisme dalam berbagai tingkatan. Kedua, supremasi agama dan warna kulit mendominasi sepanjang sejarah Amerika seperti yang diungkapkan secara imajinatif oleh setiap cerita. Ketiga, meskipun diperlakukan tidak adil, tokoh perempuan bertahan hidup. Sikap mereka memberikan pandangan baru tentang peran perempuan yang sering diabaikan oleh sejarah resmi. Sebagai simpulan, cerita pendek dapat diberikan sebagai materi pengayaan yang bermakna dalam pembelajaran sejarah untuk menggugah cara berpikir kritis, empati, serta kegembiraan dalam belajar.

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“…. remains vulgar history', 7 asserting instead that historical fiction's 'pedagogical utility' means that it is able to do things that academic histories alone cannot. 8 Further, both history and fiction are formed of constructed narratives 9 and both are bound by the limits and conventions of narrative prose.…”

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‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in Literature and History

Talbott

2021

Literature & History

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This article examines a range of fictional literature – poetry, prose, play and song produced between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries – that represents aspects of the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict fought in Europe from 1618 to 1648. Depiction of the Thirty Years’ War in literary works is compared to that found in empirical historical evidence and historians’ analyses. It is concluded that historical fictions offer a different, but equally valid, account of the conflict to academic histories, and that by using historical fictions and empirical evidence together, a more holistic picture of events is offered than academic histories alone provide.

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‘All good stories’: historical fiction in pedagogy, theory, and scholarship

Cited by 8 publications

References 77 publications

Historical empathy and medicine: Pathography and empathy in Sophocles’ Philoctetes

Historical empathy and medicine: Pathography and empathy in Sophocles’ Philoctetes

Analisis Cerpen untuk Pembelajaran Sejarah Amerika

‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in Literature and History

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