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The Rhetoric of History
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
276 Pages | 6 x 9
$21.95
The sole purpose of this book, said author Savoie Lottinville, is "to help the person committed to history to become an effective writer in that inviting field." Lottinville emphasizes that writing must be practiced as a discipline, as exacting as research and as elusive as achievement in any other art.
As every historian discovers, it is one thing to learn historical method and amass data and quite another to write effectively about any period or episode. Research is an absorbing means to an end, but writing is often baffling, especially to the beginner. The Rhetoric of History analyzes techniques historians need to employ and includes examples of the writing styles of many of the most notable historians of the United States and Europe.
Topics covered include: •Conceptualization in history •Handling •Openings •Constructing scenes •Narrative structures and analytical historical writing •Continuity •Managing time, place, and cultural milieu •Editing bibliographies and original documents, and •Considerations of historical publishing.
Brimming with practical advice, The Rhetoric of History will prove to be indispensable to historians—both professional and amateur.
As every historian discovers, it is one thing to learn historical method and amass data and quite another to write effectively about any period or episode. Research is an absorbing means to an end, but writing is often baffling, especially to the beginner. The Rhetoric of History analyzes techniques historians need to employ and includes examples of the writing styles of many of the most notable historians of the United States and Europe.
Topics covered include: •Conceptualization in history •Handling •Openings •Constructing scenes •Narrative structures and analytical historical writing •Continuity •Managing time, place, and cultural milieu •Editing bibliographies and original documents, and •Considerations of historical publishing.
Brimming with practical advice, The Rhetoric of History will prove to be indispensable to historians—both professional and amateur.
Savoie Lottinville, editor of four series of books published by the University of Oklahoma Press during his tenure as director from 1938 to 1967, was Regents Professor of History in the University and Director Emeritus of the Press. He was a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and of the University of Oxford, England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
“Every working historian, from the novice to the veteran, from the untrained amateur to the professionally prepared, can profit immeasurably from this important work. . . . The Rhetoric of History belongs on the shelf of all those who aspire to effective historical authorship."—Choice
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