Literárna dimenzia historických narácií a jej charakter v súčasnej postmodernej kultúre

• Authors: Juraj Šuch
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The author of the article presents Hayden White’s understanding of historicalnarrative. This tropological understanding of history emphasizes common constructiveprocesses in the writing of fiction and historical narrative. According toWhite, historians use fictive elements (narrative structures) in writing historicalnarratives, which are important for their understanding. This is the opposite viewto the traditional “scientific” understanding of historical narratives which supposethat the significance of literary dimension of historical narrative disappears in theprocess of creating one universal narrative about the past. Contemporary postmodernculture supports radical plurality of historical narratives, which reduces thepossibility of writing such a universal historical narrative. From the point of view ofthe author, the developing era of digitalization will have a negative impact on literaryskill of young generation as well as the writing of historical narrative.

Keywords

PL

Historical narrative; Hayden White; writing history; plurality; literary skills; era of digitalization

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UPH, Uniwersytet Mateja Bela w Bańskiej Bystrzycy
• Journal: Conversatoria Litteraria
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 201-207

Dates

published

2018-10-08

Contributors

author

Juraj Šuch