role of readers and audiences
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- what role do readers and audience play in historical practice and writing
- INTRO - readers and audiences - recognises how the medium of history and how it interacts with the public is changing - from walter scott to bridgerton, despite some (Ranke and Bury) saying need to focus on science, the importance of readers and audiences is undeniable
- important to recognise the relationship and interaction can affect history produced, therefore this essay will investigate the role readers and audiences play in historical practie and writing
- internet - 2 way more recipricol
- more democratic way of understanding history - more democratic participation e.g. VR etc - Ann Rigney - 116
- film and audiences
- able to convey serious history too - not just for entertainment and money (Rosenstone pg2)
- a huge way in which people understand the past - argues against the claim that history can only be told thru words on a page - 6, diff ways of repping the past - 8
- make this as a big introductory paragraph... emplotment and immersion
- commercial history means writing for an audience - use of mimetic device to represent hsitory (Anne Rigney 101)
- greater emphasis on immersivity than emplotment - can participate in the past vicariously - H. White 86
- encode strange events into culturally coded categories
- means have to make history interesting and understandable to a wider audience
- but also splits history into public and expert? - Ann Rigney 111
- interdisciplinary mimetic device - Ann Rigney - 101
- INTRO - readers and audiences - recognises how the medium of history and how it interacts with the public is changing - from walter scott to bridgerton, despite some (Ranke and Bury) saying need to focus on science, the importance of readers and audiences is undeniable
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