Historical research, creative writing, and the past : methods of knowing /

"Although historical research undertaken in different disciplines often requires speculation and imagination, it remains relatively rare for scholars to foreground these processes explicitly as a knowing method. Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past brings together researchers in...

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Other Authors: Morrison, Kevin A., 1976- (Editor), Rantala, Pälvi (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Series:Routledge new textual studies in literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Methods of knowing / Kevin A. Morrison and Pälvi Rantala
  • Textual and conceptual approaches. Epic posturing and epic entanglements: historiography, creative inquiry, and the writing of the self in Boiardo, Montaigne, and Cervantes / Alani Hicks-Bartlett
  • "The machine for showing desire": desert romance fiction and knowing sexual desire / Catherine Phipps
  • Entwining temporalities in Craig Williamson's The complete Old English poems / Elan Justice Pavlinich
  • Material and emotional approaches. Filling in the blanks: an open door invitation to a nineteenth-century American period room / Kate Kramer
  • Scraps of history: vernacular archiving and creative composition / Ben Nadler
  • Tolkien, Cline, and the Quest for a Silmaril / Tom Ue and James Munday
  • Experiential approaches. Dreams, historical knowledge, and death of a California fisherwoman / Kevin A. Morrison
  • All cops are biased: historiography as detective story / William G. Pooley
  • Sound puppets: using sonic nonfiction to perform the past / Diana Chester and Heidi Stalla
  • Embodied methodologies. Co-imagining the history of a village: autoethnographer as verbaliser of experience-based knowledge / Jaana Kouri
  • My writing journey with the Webers / Pälvi Rantala
  • Knowing hands: using tactile research methods in researching and writing the history of design / Grace Lees-Maffei.