Eurasian Journal of English Language and Literature

Yazarlar: ["Hossın ABDUL MOULA"]

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Hayden White,History,Narrative,New Historicism,Metahistory

Özet: The article aims to shed light on Hayden White’s thoughts and notions in terms of the usage of historical narrative. The article touches on White’s assumptions that history is like narrative, or history resembles literature and fiction when it comes to the techniques used in constituting it. Hayden White presents several strategies, which he believes that historians use in their writing of historical texts. First, he concentrates on the rhetorical aspect of history writing which is considered a poetic act. This prefigurative act consists of four tropes of figurative language, which are metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Second, Hayden argues, historians use in their texts certain modes such as romance, tragedy, comedy, and satire to determine the type of the texts these modes are called explanation by formal argument. Third, and lastly, White concentrates on the type of closure of the historical narratives that the historians use, this mode is called explanation by ideological implication where historians show the influence of the period that was imposed on them.

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