Struktura narracji historycznej
The Structure of Historical Narrative

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the author discusses three topics: 1) the nature of narratives in general; 2) the relation between story, plot, and argument in different kinds of narrative history; and 3) the ways in which the employment of a set of events can endow them with different, though by no means mutually exclusive meanings. He suggests that what we honor as a classic historical narrative, long after we have adjudged its story naïve and its argument invalid, is the subtlety of the emplotting procedures used in it to make of the events it describes a comprehensible dramatic unity.

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