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Alternate History: The Case of Nava Semel's IsraIsland and Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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In this paper, the development of the genre of alternate history, also called allohistory, is discussed and the authors argue that it may be treated as a philosophical genre that meditates on contingency and determinism.Citations
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What is History
TL;DR: In the light of contemporary ideas about causation, determinism, accident, objectivity, and the function and role, if any, of the individual person in history, ideas thin out.
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The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism
Public relations: Diaspora, media, and the state(s) of American literature
TL;DR: Cha's Dictée as mentioned in this paper is a collection of cover photos and dedicatory preface to a diasporic genealogies of family and genealogy prior to the body text.
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Nietzsche, Genealogy, History
TL;DR: In this paper it is shown that Reel was wrong to follow the English tendency in describing the history of morality in terms of a linear development-in reducing its entire history and genesis to an exclusive concern for utility.
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What Is History
TL;DR: The 40th anniversary edition of What is History? by R.J.Carr and E.H.Evans was published in 1989 as mentioned in this paper. But it is not available in the UK.
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Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews
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Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a text and its reading of events, characters, and speech representation for the first time, with a focus on focalization and level and voice levels.
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Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews
TL;DR: The authors presented a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from the French, with an introductory essay and notes by Donald F. Bouchard, with a summary of a course given by Foucaine at College de France.