Интерпретация на историята, литература и/или дискурсивни практики
Interpretation of history, literature and/or discursive practices

Summary/Abstract: The paper is focused on one of the founding fathers of contemporary critical theory of history. Hayden White’s metahistory is interpreted as a project of turning literary theory into protocol for studying historiography without falling into the traps that positivist and analytical philosophers of history fell into in the 1960s. The paper discusses the limitations of that protocol, the traps it also fell into in the 1980s, and the promise of the discursive analysis of historical writing to find a way to overcome those traps stemming from the textual focus of literary theory.

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