Metahistory¶
White, H. (1973). Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Primes¶
- Grand Narrative (Metanarrative)
- the narrative operates as an implicit framework legitimating institutions, practices, and interventions by identifying them with the story's forward direction; the unifying directional claim
This sourceArgues that historical narratives are structured by deep tropological and emplotment choices (romance, comedy, tragedy, satire) that precede and shape what counts as a historical fact; supports the directional/teleological-claim component and the T6 tension that narrative tropes structure metanarrative itself.
- the narrative operates as an implicit framework legitimating institutions, practices, and interventions by identifying them with the story's forward direction; the unifying directional claim
- Narrative Construction (in History)
- Hayden White's foundational work on historical emplotment (1973) demonstrated that this process is not merely a neutral repackaging of evidence but an active imposition of interpretive schemata — what White calls "emplotment" — whereby historians select one of several possible narrative modes (romance, comedy, tragedy, satire) that shape the entire argumentative field of the history.
This sourceFoundational analysis of nineteenth-century historiography arguing that historical narratives are structured by deep tropological and emplotment choices (romance, comedy, tragedy, satire) that precede and shape what counts as a historical fact.
- Hayden White's foundational work on historical emplotment (1973) demonstrated that this process is not merely a neutral repackaging of evidence but an active imposition of interpretive schemata — what White calls "emplotment" — whereby historians select one of several possible narrative modes (romance, comedy, tragedy, satire) that shape the entire argumentative field of the history.
- Periodization
- White's (1973) Metahistory revealed that periodization is itself a narrative-formal choice intertwined with the employment (romantic, tragic, comic, satiric) that a historian assigns to events.
This sourceFoundational analysis of nineteenth-century historiography arguing that historical narratives are structured by deep tropological and emplotment choices (romance, comedy, tragedy, satire) that precede and shape what counts as a historical fact.
- White's (1973) Metahistory revealed that periodization is itself a narrative-formal choice intertwined with the employment (romantic, tragic, comic, satiric) that a historian assigns to events.
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