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Review of 'The Historical Novel' by Jerome de Groot.
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Jerome De Groot, Consuming history. Historians and heritage in contemporary popular culture
Get PDFDans Consuming history. Historians and heritage in contemporary popular culture, Jerome de Groot, également auteur de The historical novel (Oxon/New York, Routledge, coll. The new critical idiom, 2010), propose d’étudier les multiples facettes de l’histoire dans les productions culturelles contemporaines et la manière dont ces dernières sont consommées par un public dont les attentes ont évolué avec les dispositifs modernes de diffusion. L’auteur dresse un large panorama des types de producti..
Prison writing, writing prison during the 1640s and 1650s
No full textIn this article, Jerome de Groot looks at the ways in which prison was conceived of in writings by imprisoned royalists to show that royalist writings are more diverse than we have realized. He reflects on the physical conditions of prisons and on writings about imprisonment during the 1640s and 1650s as a way of considering the complex, overlapping, and dynamic ways that legal and royalist identity was conceptualized during those decades. Prison writing shows us not simply the models that royalism deployed to represent itself but also how it understood and engaged with multiple other discourses, including law, religion, and dissidence. ©2009 by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. All rights reserved
Remaking History:The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions
No full textRemaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to ‘history’, while also enabling audiences to understand the ways in which the past is written, structured and ordered.Jerome de Groot uses examples from contemporary popular culture to show the relationship between fiction and history in two key ways. Firstly, the texts pedagogically contribute to the historical imaginary and secondly they allow reflection upon how the past is constructed as ‘history’. In doing so, they provide an accessible and engaging means to critique, conceptualize and reject the processes of historical representation. The book looks at the use of the past in fiction from sources including Mad Men, Downton Abbey and Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn, along with the work of directors such as Terence Malick, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese, to show that fictional representations enable a comprehension of the fundamental strangeness of the past and the ways in which this foreign, exotic other is constructed.Drawing from popular films, novels and TV series of recent years, and engaging with key thinkers from Marx to Derrida, Remaking History is a must for all students interested in the meaning that history has for fiction, and vice versa
Digital Public History: Family History and Genealogy
No full textThis chapter looks at the use of digital resources in family history. In-creasingly, family history is being supported by digital means, and participantsare often leaders in terms of using online and digital tools in their historical inves-tigations. The digital tools that family historians use are becoming more sophisti-cated, and the types of information that are being included are becoming moreinteroperable and shareable. Family history is a global, enormously popular pub-lic history activity. It is undertaken around the world and for the most part online,using digital tools and engaging users in networks and online communities. As itsdigital tools evolve and develop, the practice of family history will similarly evolve.More and more, the practice of family history is being undertaken on websites andusing the software provided by major international information companies, and it isimportant to take into account the tension between individual usage and that sup-ported in this commercialised way
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DNA and the Past
No full textAuthor: Jerome De Groot, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK To what extent does genetic science influence the way that we think about the past? Can DNA sequencing to support family history research be understood as historical investigation? Is genetic science a kind of public historical work? Are genetics companies, DNA genealogists, and archaeogeneticists acting as public historians and contributors to the contemporary gl..
El consumo de la Prehistoria a través del videojuego, representaciones, tipologías y causas = The Prehistory through the Videogames: Representations, Tipologies and Causes
No full textLas representaciones de la Prehistoria en la cultura popular siempre han sido parciales, deformadas por los propios creadores para fijar una “marca prehistórica” que fuera fácilmente reconocible para los consumidores. En este trabajo intentaremos trazar un recorrido por la historia de las representaciones del videojuego ambientados en la Prehistoria para establecer una tipología y una serie de rasgos generales. Como conclusión ligaremos esta tipología, las diferentes representaciones y rasgos generales con las nociones de consumo, el pasado y el uso de la Historia en la cultura popular expresadas en los trabajos de Barthes Samuel (2012), David Lowenthal (2015) y Jerome de Groot (2016).The representation of the Prehistory in popular culture have been always partial, deformed by the creators of contents to create a “prehistoric brand” that be easily recognoscible for the consumer. In this paper we will try to trace a history of the prehistoric representations in the video games and stablish a typology for the different manifestations. In the last place, we will question himself the reasons for this representations in relation with the works of Barthes Samuel (2012), David Lowenthal (2015) and Jerome de Groot (2016) and their notions of the relation between the consuming, the past and the use of History in the popular culture.</jats:p
History, pastness and the postgenomic imaginary
Get PDFThis article considers the ways that poets, rappers and artists including Kendrick Lamar, Residente, Zaffar Kunial, Michael Symons Roberts, Hannah Sullivan and Marc Quinn have responded to the biomedical postgenomic gaze, and the ways in which they have dissented or built upon this seemingly new way of conceiving of the human. These poets and rappers consider what it means to imagine in a postgenomic way, and the possible implications of this for writing, art, and living. The multiple texts I explore articulate how postgenomic identities have been expanded and understood and imagined. They participate, therefore, in the consideration articulated by Jenny Reardon of the ‘postgenomic condition’, but, as I argue, they extend and debate this. These texts interrogate what the postgenomic condition enables aesthetically, and, more importantly, what type of critique might be developed. Rather than be constrained by being postgenomic, they see opportunity for expansion, development, innovation, and critique. In these articulations, then, we can discern a roadmap for being postgenomic, as poetry seems to offer a thoughtful means for navigating the complexity of this new state.<br/
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