The Structure of Historical Narrative
Hayden White
emerytowany profesorUniversity of California w Santa CruzAbstract
In the paper the author discusses three topics: 1) the nature of narratives in general; 2) the relation between story, plot, and argument in different
kinds of narrative history; and 3) the ways in which the employment of a set of events can endow them with different, though by no means mutually
exclusive meanings. He suggests that what we honor as a classic historical narrative, long after we have adjudged its story na¨ıve and its argument
invalid, is the subtlety of the emplotting procedures used in it to make of the events it describes a comprehensible dramatic unity.
emerytowany profesorUniversity of California w Santa Cruz
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