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Article: No end of history: evidence from the contemporary English novel.
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- Twentieth Century Literature
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- June 22, 1995
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Price, a student in Tom Crick's course on the French Revolution in Graham Swift's novel Waterland, disrupts the class and sets off Crick's rambling but fascinating discourse on the history of the East Anglian fens with a challenge that is all too familiar to teachers of history, literature, and virtually every other academic subject: "What matters . . . is the here and now. Not the past. . . . The only important thing about history, I think, sir, is that it's got to the point where it's probably about to end" (6-7). Price has some distinguished and more articulate company. According to such diverse critics and philosophers as Jean Baudrillard, Francis Fukuyama, and ...
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