Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

ISBN-13: 9780801817618 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 464 str.

Hayden White

Opis

In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an appropriate historical explanation should be.