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Invented History, Fabricated Power: The Narrative Shaping of Civilization and Culture

Invented History, Fabricated Power: The Narrative Shaping of Civilization and Culture

Wood, Barry

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryArchitecture History

ISBN10: 1785274759
ISBN13: 9781785274756
Publisher: Anthem Pr
Published: Nov 16 2020
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Typically we think of power as economic, political, or military, but fictional narratives attached to kings, empires, religious founders, and societies have been used to create and enhance power and authority since the beginning of civilization. Invented History, Fabricated Power presents evidence from cultures ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, to demonstrate that narrative extends well beyond literary works (plays, poems, epics, novels) where it is usually studied by literary specialists. At the same time, there is much to be learned about the power of narrative from literary analyses which are herein undertaken for a number of lesser known works: Ramayana, Mahabharata, Shahnameh, Sejarah Melayu, Negarakertagama and Kebra Nagast. As an imaginative endowment of humans, however, narrative knowing is a cognitive universal--the primary way we organize, remember, and communicate our experience and knowledge. It is, thus, a faculty susceptible to narratives that construct and enhance power for persons, kings, empires, societies, religions, and cultures.

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