 History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of William James, does not define history as an inquiry into reality but as its origin. Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened: it is what we judge to have happened.  Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? - Side 131af Gustavo Pérez Firmat - 1990 - 394 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Philip Stevick - 1971 - 348 sider
...the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.] History, mother of truth; the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of William James, does not define history as an investigation of reality, but as its origin. Historical truth, for him, is not what took place; it... | |
 | Eric S. Rabkin - 1979 - 497 sider
...past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor. History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of...has happened; it is what we judge to have happened. The final phrases— exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor—are brazenly... | |
 | Margaret Church - 1983 - 232 sider
...Jorge Luis Borges, who sets forth Pierre Menard as candidate. "Historical truth," writes Borges, " is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened."37 VII In conclusion, then, it is clear that for Fielding in Joseph Andrews Don Quixote is... | |
 | John Barton - 1984 - 276 sider
...past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counsellor. History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of...has happened; it is what we judge to have happened. The final phrase - exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counsellor — are brazenly... | |
 | Jorge Luis Borges - 1964 - 496 sider
...past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor. History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of...has happened; it is what we judge to have happened. The final phrases — exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor — are brazenly... | |
 | Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley - 1987 - 292 sider
...past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counsellor. History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of...has happened; it is what we judge to have happened . The final phrases - exemplar and adviser to the present , and the future's counsellor - are brazenly... | |
 | Doris Sommer - 1991 - 460 sider
...truth, he was merely a "lay genius" offering rhetorical praise for history. But when Menard rewrites it, Borges finds that "the idea is astounding. Menard,...updating of the text should not be surprising because, even if Menard's own fetishized version ironically wants to reinscribe a textual stability denied to... | |
 | Philip G. Cohen - 1991 - 244 sider
...past, exemplar and advisor to the present, and the future's counselor. History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of...truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we have judged to have happened. The final phrases—exemplar and advisor to the present, and the future's... | |
 | Charles Martindale - 1993 - 156 sider
...exemplar and adviser to to the present, and the future's counsellor. History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of William James, does not define history as an enquiry into reality but as its origin. Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is... | |
 | Michael Shanks, Christopher Y. Tilley - 1992 - 324 sider
...past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counsellor. History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of William James, does not defme history as an inquiry into reality but as its origin. Historical truth, for him, is not what... | |
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