Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Narrating the Past.- History as Content.- Story.- Narrating and Narration.- History as Expression.- The Past, the Facts and History.- Understanding [in] History.- The Oar in Water.- Conclusion.- Glossary.- Notes.- Further Reading.- Index.

Narrative and History

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST - Nancy Partner Modernity and History: The Professional Discipline The Turn towards 'Science': Historians Delivering Untheorized Truth - Michael Bentley The Implications of Empiricism for History - Lutz Raphael The Case for Historical Imagination: Defending the Human Factor and Narrative - Jan van der Dussen The Annales School: Variations on Realism, Methods and Time - Joseph Tendler Intellectual History: From Ideas to Meanings - Donald R Kelley Social History: A New Kind of History - Brian Lewis Postmodernism: The Linguistic Turn and Historical Knowledge The Work of Hayden White I: Mimesis, Figuration, and the Writing of History - Robert Doran The Work of Hayden White II: Defamiliarizing Narrative - Kalle Pihlainen Derrida and Deconstruction: Challenges to the Transparency of Language - Robert M Stein The Return of Rhetoric - Hans Kellner Michel Foucault: The Unconscious of History and Culture - Clare O'Farrell History as Text: Narrative Theory and History - Ann Rigney The Boundaries of History and Fiction - Ann Curthoys and John Docker PART TWO: APPLICATIONS: THEORY-INTENSIVE AREAS OF HISTORY - Nancy Partner The Newest Social History: Crisis and Renewal - Brian Lewis Women's History/Feminist History - Judith P Zinsser Gender I: From Women's History to Gender History - Bonnie Smith Gender II: Masculinity Acquires a History - Karen Harvey Sexuality and History - Amy Richlin Psychoanalysis and the Making of History - Michael Roper New National Narratives - Kevin Foster Cultural Studies and History - Gilbert B Rodman Memory: Witness, Experience, Collective Meaning - Patrick H Hutton Postcolonial Theory and History - Benjamin Zachariah PART THREE: CODA. POST-POSTMODERNISM: DIRECTIONS AND INTERROGATIONS - Nancy Partner Post-Positivist Realism: Regrounding Representation - John H Zammito Historical Experience beyond the Linguistic Turn - Frank Ankersmit Photographs: Reading the Image for History - Judith Keilbach Digital Information: 'Let a hundred flowers bloom...' Is Digital a Cultural Revolution? - Valerie Johnson and David Thomas Recovering the Self: Agency after Deconstruction - David Gary Shaw The Fundamental Things Apply: Aristotle's Narrative Theory and the Classical Origins of Postmodern History - Nancy Partner

The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory

This essay is part of a long-term cross-disciplinary research project, entitled “Narrative between the Disciplines,” which looks at the way narrative is used within and between different disciplinary formations. Its goal is to say something about narrative itself as a form of redescription, a mode of knowledge, and how the claims made for it by the various disciplines say something about their own operations, limitations, and presuppositions. By examining the diverse ways narrative is inflected in different institutional settings, we might also discover something about our concern for narrative now and our notions of disciplinarity and the compartmentalization of knowledge. Elsewhere, I have already sketched out some of the basic questions regarding the recent explosion of interest in narrative and in theorizing about narrative across the disciplines: Why narrative? And why narrative now? Why have we decided to trust the tale? This essay develops some of the questions that my earlier work left open; more specifically, it deals with the inherent “bivalency” of narrative—its dependency on the temporalities both of the telling and of the told—and charts the history of the recent “narrativist turn.” It attempts to present a genealogy of the different ways in which disciplines in the human sciences have formulated and employed narrative and narrative theory, particularly in those fields that make truth claims: history or political science, for example. Why have political scientists now decided to “trust the tale”? Is their sense of narrative the same as say, literary theorists’? And what might these things say about their own discipline and the relations between it and other disciplines in the human sciences?

Merely Telling Stories? Narrative and Knowledge in the Human Sciences

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“greetings, i am an immortal god!”: reading, imagination, and personal divinity in late antiquity, 2nd – 5th centuries ce

An analysis of the language used by a management team suggests that narrative discourse helped resolve conflict, influence corporate decisions, and unify the group. By collectively constructing sto...

Narrative Discourse and Management Action

\"Hayden White...is the most prominent American scholar to unite historiography and literary criticism into a broader reflection on narrative and cultural understanding.\" --'The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism' In his earlier books such as 'Tropics of Discourse' and 'The Content of the Form', Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In 'Figural Realism', White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. \"'History' is not only an object we can study,\" writes White, \"it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediated by a distinctive kind of written discourse. It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography.\

Jon Erickson

Papers

Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (review)