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		Simon Schama's "Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations)" is an interesting foray into the murky realm of historiography.
		"Dead Certainties" is an engaging and thoughtful piece of scholarship/literature that should be taken as such - and as such, it is not perfect.
		In DEAD CERTAINTIES Schama revisits the story of Wolfe the British hero of the 1700's on the 'Heights of Abraham' in Canada.
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		But Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past.
		In "Dead Certainties", he tells a fascinating story in a style more familiar from historical novels, especially historical mysteries like "The Plague Tales" and "An Instance of the Fingerpost".
		Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations) Decade of Denial: A Snapshot of America in the 1990s [Textbook Binding] by...
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	Common-place: Vox Pop: CSI (1849)
		Published at the height of the postmodern critique of historical certainty and skepticism toward the efficacy of narrative, Dead Certainties was not so much a salvo in that conflict as an intellectual romp by a noted and best-selling scholar with a nose for the promotional.
		In Dead Certainties, the circumstances of the crime were finally revealed in Webster’s "death row" confession, from which Schama quoted at some length.
		Whatever the verdict on Schama’s slipping back and forth between fact and fantasy, Dead Certainties is an elegantly written book in which the author’s ventriloquist act is hard to discern from the authentic voices.
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	An Aristocrat's Killing
		The 1849 murder and dismemberment of Boston Brahmin George Parkman, A.B. 1809, a compulsive, disagreeable, and embittered landlord and moneylender (who had failed in a medical career) still roils the imaginations of historians.
		Simon Schama, a onetime Harvard history professor now teaching at Columbia, exercised the crafts of both history and fiction in Dead Certainties, his 1991 book on the Parkman case.
		Some suspect that Ephraim Littlefield, a janitor and trafficker in dead bodies who worked "downstairs" at the Medical College and despised Webster, may have framed him.
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	Though He Were Dead
		Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.
		God is not the God of the dead but of the living: those who have departed have not perished.
		We are dead by nature, and you can never produce life out of death: the essential elements are wanting.
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	A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
		At Preston in 1643 'nothing was heard but "Kill dead, kill dead", horsemen pursuing the poor amazed people, killing and spoiling, nothing regarding the dolesful cries of women and children'.
		After Aberdeen fell to the army of the Marquis of Montrose and Alasdair MacColla, the better-off citizens were made to strip naked before being hacked to death so that the blood would not stain the valuable booty of their clothes.
		Victorian certainty about a providential purpose running through British histories has, it is safe to say, long been out of fashion, at least in the academic world.
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	May 1992
		Simon Schama's Dead Certainties is assessed in the light of the complex relationship between history and fiction, which share some limited common territory.
		Only two of Schama's three narratives cohere, and while uncertainty may be a common theme, his historian's judgment tends to dissipate much of the mystery his fictionalizing technique creates.
		His idea of historical uncertainty arises from a fallacy that a "communion with the dead" (as in Henry James's The Sense of the Past), possible only for a time-traveler, represents authentic knowledge.
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	Index: Stories, Listed by Title
		The Dead Bury the Dead • Simon Clark • (ss)
		The Dead Fiddler • Isaac Bashevis Singer • (nv)
		Dead Surfers on the Reefs of the Afterworld • J.
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	Siris: Oportet Filium Hominis Die Tertia Resurgere
		Of course this presents an overwhelming problem for thoughtful and sophisticated persons, for the doctrine of the resurrection, literally understood, is an absurdity.
		That a man, three days dead, might be revived, to mingle again with the living, talk to them, and move about much as if nothing had happened to him, violates the most basic certainties of reason and common knowledge.
		We cannot rule out effects on the basis of their generally not being effected, but only on the basis of there being no cause adequate for them.
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	Simon Schama History of Britain
		" Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation.
		He was accused of Fukuyama-style revisionism, but denied the charge: he was, he insisted, no conservative, no apologist for the ancien regime; he told one interviewer he was on the right in the old Labour party, on the left in the new.
		In 1991, his confidence and the urge to experiment growing, he produced Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), a curious hybrid of fact and fiction linking the death of General Wolfe in 1759 with the trial for murder of a Boston professor in 1849.
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		Simon Schama, the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches" and "Citizens", sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths.
		In discussing the "speculations" surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify - the unpredictable history of stories.;On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on the Heights of Abraham.
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		In your book, Dead Certainties, you say history must be "a work of the imagination." If your writing includes fictional passages, can it still be called history?
		I knew as soon as you make things up, you've crossed a crucial borderline between history and fiction.
		So I thought, well I'm going to try my hand at a fiction about the problems of writing history, and about an historical event.
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	Ronald Feldman Gallery
		Born in 1922, Leon Golub is one of the world’s leading postwar painters.
		His work was last seen in New York in 1996 at the Feldman Gallery and the New York Kunsthalle.
		In Dead Certainties + The Blue Tattoo, Prometheus questions his actions – a little late unfortunately; a fatigued lioness questions why things have to be the way they are, and various other questions are evoked.
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		They are united in one very important respect: they both share the singular goal of producing a uniquely Indian antiquity, one full of dead certainties and minus the distracting quibbles of the historian.
		The last 40 years or so have seen the burgeoning of professional historians in universities and research institutes who have contributed substantially to knowledges of the Indian past as much by uncovering new materials and sources as by being open and receptive to the methods of other disciplines.
		As a result of the transformations of both sources and methods, many of the old certainties about the Indian past have been questioned and revised, thereby bringing into focus such ‘people without history’ as women, lower castes, ethnic minorities.
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	National Review: Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations). (... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The quality that this author requires from his readers is trust, and with the corridors of academe now lined with subterfuge and hypocrisy, trust is a very difficult gift to offer.
		If that trust is withheld, the book will frustrate and perturb in equal proportions; if it is given, Dead Certainties will seem a literary and scholarly triumph.
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	HIST H680 27089 History & Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Our rubric "Frauds, Forgeries, and Imposters" is meant to register how often the most interesting thinking about the qualities specific to authentic history—thinking that engages scholars such as Natalie Zemon Davis, Jonathan Spence, John Brewer, and Simon Schama—has taken as its pretext figures (Martin Guerre most notably) who cause trouble for stable definitions of authenticity.
		Our readings this semester are, accordingly, populated by people who disappear or who give false accounts of themselves and by corpses whose cause of death is enigmatic --and to some degree remains so, since dead men tell no tales.
		Of course, that same rubric, "Frauds, Forgeries, and Imposters," frequently names the terms in which historians think about rival representations of the past.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blfal05/hist/hist_h680_27089.html (309 words)

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		Especially on the sensational murder cases that took place more than 100 years ago.
		People do not change much over the years.
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		painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness,
		The bestselling, highly readable history incurred the wrath of Francophiles and challenged the way the past is recounted.
		Since that time, Schama has revealed his inquisitive mind and stylistic flair in a number of narrative interpretations including The Embarrassments of Riches, Dead Certainties, and the recently published Landscape and Memory.
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	Harvard Gazette: 'Murder at Harvard'
		The three visited the Harvard Film Archive Wednesday (Sept. 25) to screen their new film, "Murder at Harvard," scheduled to air on the Public Broadcasting Service's "American Experience" series in 2003.
		The film and the book that inspired it, Schama's 1991 "Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations," take an unorthodox route through historical storytelling, one that makes frequent visits to fiction, arriving at a truth that may be even more precise than the facts suggest.
		Schama, University Professor of history and art history at Columbia University who taught at Harvard from 1978 to 1993, appears on-screen as both narrator and commentator, describing how and why he chose to fictionalize Parkman's murder in his controversial book "Dead Certainties."
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	CJR September/October 2004: Essay
		Nicholas Lemann, the dean of Columbia’s journalism school, is working on a book that won’t include a single interview with any witness or participant in the events he describes.
		It’s about a battle over voting rights in the Reconstruction South that foreordained the election crisis of 1876, and everybody involved is dead.
		But besides historical significance, it has what most journalists are trained to look for and, says Lemann, what professional historians are less adept at handling: a “hell of a story.”
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		He is also winner of the Wolfson Prize for History for Patriots and Liberators: Revolution and Government in the Netherlands 1780-1813 (1977); of the NCP Prize for Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989); and the WH Smith Literary Award for Landscape and Memory (1995).
		His other major books include Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations (1991), The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987), and Rembrandt's Eyes (1999).
		Simon Schama was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was Fellow from 1966 to 1976 before moving to Brasenose College, Oxford as Fellow and Tutor in Modern History.
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		He is now a professor of art history and history at Columbia University.
		His books include "Patriots and Liberators," "The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Dead Certainties, Landscape and Memory," and "Rembrandt's Eyes."
		He was art critic for the New Yorker from 1995 to 1998, for which he received a National Magazine Award.
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	Can You Believe It!?! Where is the Body? or the Case of the Missing Corpus Delicti - Page 3
		Here is the most telling part of his charge:
		It has sometimes been said by judges that a jury never ought to convict in a capital case unless the dead body is found.
		It sometimes happens, however, that it cannot be found, where the proof of death is clear.
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		Ever noticed how Marx, Gramsci, Adorno, Althusser, Zizek and all the other white male Marxist gods don't actually consider the colonial state in their confident and totalizing pronouncements on the confident and totalizing category called 'capital'?
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	// Journal: Dead Certainties - Richard Grayson
		This provides an isomorph of early perceptions and so allows us to feel the pleasure of a guilty return.
		These fictions re-articulate the child's certainty that the world that puzzles them and they are part of, is full of dynamics and desires that they are unable to, (since the formation of the ego) have control over.
		We are changelings with substituted parents: that (alien) family holds some hidden secret; something threatening and strange is behind the smiling face.
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