num_pages: 144
description: How can the language of history balance storytelling with truth-telling? Rancière considers this question in a meditation on the poetics of historical knowledge that attempts to identify the literary procedures by which historical discourse escapes literature and gives itself the status of a science.
language: English
title: Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge
titlecomplete: Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge
genres: History, Theory, Philosophy, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 59
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press