History And Literature: An Inter-disciplinaryapproch

<p>All intellectual disciplines are interrelated. History, though a vast subject in itself has<br>intimate relations with a few other disciplines, History keeps intimate relation with. They<br>are closely associated. For a longtime, from Renaissance to the nineteenth century,<br>history was considered a branch of literature. From nineteenth century history got its<br>separate identity as a science, when Ranke denied that history was a branch of literature.<br>Though, we saw in the earlier section of this chapter that the ancient people the primitive<br>tribes always recorded their history and heroic past in literary genres of songs, myths,<br>ballads, etc. However, if history is the record of life, literature is the reflection of life - the<br>substance and the shadow shall always go together. The main theme of both history and<br>literature is man in society. Both these disciplines use imagination as their powerful<br>weapon, although its use is not so liberal in history.</p> <p>