Threads and Traces

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• The very page from Coras which we have just discussed reminds us that the adoption of a stylistic codex determines certain aspects of reality and not others, emphasizes certain connections and not others, establishes certain hierarchies and not others. That all this seems to be connected to the changing relations in the course of two and a half millennia between historical narration and other types of narration—from the epic poem, to the novel, to film—seems obvious. To analyze these relationships historically—composed, in turn, of exchanges, hybridization, juxtapositions, one-way influences— would be much more useful than proposing abstract theoretical formulations, which are often implicitly or explicitly normative. (查看原文)

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• An analysis of the claims to truth within historical narratives as such would have involved discussing the concrete problems, connected to the sources and to research techniques, which individual historians had set for themselves in their work. If, like White, we ignore these elements, historiography takes the form of a pure and simple ideological document. (查看原文)

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