i've never done windschuttle. he seriously is not that interesting in terms of historiography and i can think of much better contemporary historians that remain curiously untouched by the majority of history extension students.
yeah-- i also am interested in others' views on White Oleander. after reading it a second time i wanted to smash it into a gazillion pieces. i have such disgust for that book now.
so how does this work exactly? do we just read the three (?) selected texts in a week (though i have read the likely ones already....) and then just rave on about them until a poll is made for some new ones?
yeah i also forgot to mention---- CONCEPT is kind of difficult, if you're looking for something somewhat unique and sophisticated; and then wrapping all your writing (if creative) around your concept. my teacher used to rave on about how mine was too 'intellectual' but in comparison to some of...
yeah i would suggest you refer to both postmodernism / post-structuralist views of history as well as a few thinkers on it-- i would suggest Foucault (genealogy & archaeology) and Derrida (deconstruction / linguistics / semiotics et cetera; you probably know how it goes) and through this you can...
okay so wait-- so we have to (/ought to) state the name of the source - whether from the BOS book thing or otherwise - in our essays? i mean i can understand why perhaps for the case study question, but is it necessary for the first question?
i always figured we just used as many HISTORIANS...
yeah i didn't think it was hard at all (though it's a nice thing to play up :P), i didn't do any research or put any real effort in...but it gets stressful if you leave it all to the last few weeks and have to force your creativity.
haha i just wanted to say that this thread makes me laugh every time i see it-- that has to be one of the most un-talked about and undiscovered areas of history that highschoolers look at. good luck with it!
HAHA asylum. let us pretend to be entirely beyond it all now. :D
ps NeverSummer YES-- the writers of post-structuralist works and theory are more concerned with language, though more than just its inherent bias. authority, power, layers within deconstruction et cetera. i read this FUCKED UP...
we were slow moving and didn't get to its un-defineable-ness 'til the third lesson i think... too busy learning how to spell and pronounce it and "lieutenant".