Social History as Lived and Written

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“…The research of these social science historians has shed light on patterns of congressional voting, social correlates of political identity, and aspects of economic development. Other scholars have eschewed quantitative methods and have instead embraced the analytical approaches of the social theorists of the period (Henretta 1979). This has indirectly given rise to an interdisciplinary approach, with scholars building upon the theories from anthropology, demography, psychology, rural sociology, and labour economics.…”

Narratology's Centrifugal Force: A Literary Perspective on the Extensions of Narrative Theory

“…Teresa de Lauretis has pulled together much feminist criticism in film and literature to suggest positive ways in which a gendered story could be told, striving "to construct other forms of coherence, to shift the terms of representation, to produce the conditions of representability of another-and gendered-social object" (de Lauretis 1987: 109). In the nonfictional realm, James Henretta has been reexamining narrative resources for including in student textbooks the stories of yeomen farmers, blacks, women, and laborers, as well as the better known stories of politics and war (Henretta 1979(Henretta , 1988.…”

What has history to do with semiotic?

“…There is an ongoing debate among historians concerning the strengths and weaknesses of the European intellectual traditions of Marxism and structuralism, on the one side, vis-a-vis the American tradition in philosophy inspired by C. S. Peirce. See Henretta (1979Henretta ( : 1307Henretta ( -1309. For comment on the relationship between history as event and history as structure, see Kinser (1981: 86, 94-96); for an explicitly semiotic structuralist approach, see Hill and Hill (1980: 829-846, 854-857), with the comments by Sewell and Thrupp (1980: 847-850, 850-853), respectively.…”