SONG HISTORY NARRATIVES AS GRAND ALLEGORY

Great Traditions and Grand Narratives

Post-modernism and recent critical theory has sought to deconstruct the role of particular ‘Great Traditions’ and ‘Grand Narratives’ as privileged accounts of world affairs, contemporary and historical. In spite of this, such narratives, even if poorly understood, remain at the heart of much public debate and continue to shape national and global policies. These traditions, linked to elements o...

“Silver, small data and grand narratives: towards an (integral) agrarian history of pharaonic

Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest agrarian civilizations in the world. With the introduction of writing (about 3300 BC) institutions such as temples, the crown and others produced large amounts of documents dealing with agriculture, the organization of the agricultural workforce, the management of cultivated land, etc. Yet the very origins of these documents, as well as the vivid descriptio...

Narratives of the history of American medicine.

Narratives as Programs

Representing narratives, and reasoning about them, has been a prominent theme in logical formalisms for dynamical systems (e.g. 9, 5, 2]). However, the existing literature provides a rather limited concept of what a narrative is; the examples all concern linear action sequences, sometimes including incomplete information about action occurrence times. The point of departure of this paper is the...

Historical Personalities: Tweeting Standard Narratives in the History of Science

During the Annual History of Science Society 2013 meeting, a round table on social media, ‘The Pleasures and Dangers of Social Media’, was organised as a part of a continuing conversation about the role that social media plays in providing leads for research, in constructing course syllabi, and even for opening conversations about the role of archives in historical research and what that could ...