Naracija u historiografiji. Teorijski aspekti
Narration in Historiography. Theoretical Aspects

Summary/Abstract: The paper questions contemporary views on the role of language and narrative structures in historiographic representations of reality. Although somewhat simplified, four theoretical approaches (with practical applications) to this problem are considered, since it has been, for the last thirty years, an important topic of international discussions among theoreticians of history and literature. The first, traditional approach, considers language and narration as neutral instruments for presenting the real facts; the second, non-narrative approach, rejects historiography of narrative kind as novelistic and mythical; the third, narrative approach, considers historiography as an aspect of literary practice, and the fourth approach attempts to provide an insight into a specific role and power of narration in representations of reality. The paper also considers similarities and differences between particular authors and attempts to figure out possible ways of analyzing historiographic texts as narratives.

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