“There is No Verb for History”: Practicing Historians and Postmodern Theory, by Nancy Partner
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Nancy Partner is Professor of History at McGill University. She is the co-editor (with Sarah Foot) of The Sage Handbook of Historical Theory (Sage, 2013). Among her numerous articles in historical theory are “Foucault’s Iconic Afterlife: The Posthumous Reach of Words and Things,” History and Theory (2016); “The Fundamental Things Apply: Aristotle’s Narrative Theory and the Classical Origins of Postmodern Theory,” in The Sage Handbook of Historical Theory (Sage, 2013); “Our History/Your Myths: Narrative and National Identity,” Storia della Storiografia/History of Historiography (2012); “Narrative Persistence: The Post-Postmodern Life of Narrative Theory,” in Re-Figuring Hayden White, ed. Frank Ankersmit et al. (Stanford University Press, 2009).
Nancy Partner, “‘There is No Verb for History’: Practicing Historians and Postmodern Theory,” in “Philosophy and History,” ed. Jeremy Gauger, special issue, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 37:2 (2016), pp. 325–49.