 | Paul Ricoeur - 1990 - 292 pagina’s
...subjected to either experimental or objectal controls" (ibid., p. 82). In this sense, historical narratives are "verbal fictions the contents of which are as...literature than they have with those in the sciences" (ibid., his emphasis). 51. See Northrop Frye, "New Directions from Old," in his Fables of Identity:... | |
 | Laurie Finke - 1987 - 284 pagina’s
...Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology (New York: Harcourt, Brace ÔC World, 1963), p. 55. fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as found and the forms of which have as much in common with their counterparts in literature [as] they have with those in the sciences."... | |
 | Bryce Conrad - 1990 - 196 pagina’s
...experimentation or observational controls" is to show that our histories are "verbal fictions, the contents of which have more in common with their counterparts in literature than they have with those in the sciences."16 Even in its most objective descriptions of the past, White claims, written history linguistically... | |
 | 1992 - 772 pagina’s
...historical explanations, but also the forms of historical representation, since historical narratives are "verbal fictions, the contents of which are as...literature than they have with those in the sciences" ("The Historical Text" 42). A particular historical interpretation can be neither disconfirmed nor... | |
 | Geneva Smitherman - 1995 - 284 pagina’s
...general there has been a reluctance to consider historical narratives as what they most manifestly are: verbal fictions, the contents of which are as...literature than they have with those in the sciences" (p. 82). In such a dispensation, old boundaries between the figurative and the literal, the "true"... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - 1996 - 108 pagina’s
...contemporary theorists of historiography as Hayden White, who has argued that historical narratives are 'verbal fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as found'.28 At the same time, Griffiths resists that more radically postmodern textualizing of history,... | |
 | Roger Chartier - 1997 - 208 pagina’s
...general there has been a reluctance to consider historical narratives as what they most manifestly are: verbal fictions, the contents of which are as...literature than they have with those in the sciences" (Tropics of Discourse, 82.). And in 1982, "One must face the fact that when it comes to apprehending... | |
 | Gerald Robert Vizenor - 2000 - 254 pagina’s
...general there has been a reluctance to consider historical narratives as what they most manifestly are: verbal fictions, the contents of which are as...counterparts in literature than they have with those in the sciences."37 The current and most common measures of native identities are based on genealogical narratives,... | |
 | David Campbell - 1998 - 323 pagina’s
..."imagined, hypothetical, or invented"12 — he wants to insist on the point that historical narratives are "verbal fictions, the contents of which are as...counterparts in literature than they have with those in the sciences."13 This comes from recognizing that any given set of real events can be emplotted in a number... | |
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in general there has been a reluctance to consider historical narratives as what they most manifestly are: verbal fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as found and the forms of which have more in common with their counterparts in literature... 
