 | Hayden White - 1990 - 264 pages
...the weight of being told as any number of different kinds of stories. Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical,...given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition upon the events that endow them with meaning. The effect of such... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 1990 - 216 pages
...events, as Hayden White reminds us, is a distinctly literary operation since historical events are not "intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical, and so on,...imposition of the structure of a given story type on the events."17 The representation depends, of course, on the ideological point of view of the historiographer... | |
 | Jerzy Topolski - 1994 - 244 pages
...given set or sequence of real events" has intrinsically narrative features; they acquire these features "only by the imposition of the structure of a given story type on the events".3 Clearly the skeptical view expressed by these two thinkers involves three key conceptions:... | |
 | Keith Jenkins - 1995 - 216 pages
...different narrative ways (as Rorty has put it, anything can be redescribed): Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical,...given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition upon the events that endow them with meaning.. . . There is no way... | |
 | Vivian Carol Sobchack - 1996 - 280 pages
...the weight of being told as any number of different kinds of stories. Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical,...given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition upon the events that endow them with meaning. — Hayden White, The... | |
 | David Campbell - 1998 - 323 pages
...the weight of being told as any number of different kind of stories. Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical,...given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition upon the events that endow them with meaning. The effect of such... | |
 | Christopher Sharrett - 1999 - 460 pages
...the weight of being told as any number of different kinds of stories. Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical,...given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition upon the events that endow them with meaning. —Hayden While* White's... | |
 | Steven Heydemann - 2000 - 383 pages
...Development and Social Change in Rural Egypt, p. 163. 9. White remarks, "Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical,...given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition upon the events that endow them with meaning." "The Question of Narrative... | |
 | Geoffrey Roberts - 2001 - 470 pages
...given set or sequence of real events" has intrinsically narrative features; they acquire these features "only by the imposition of the structure of a given story type on the events."1 Clearly the skeptical view expressed by these two thinkers involves three key conceptions:... | |
 | Gabriela F. Arredondo - 2003 - 410 pages
...the weight of being told as any number of different kinds of stories. Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical,...given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition upon the events that endow them with meaning" (1987, 4). White is... | |
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Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical, and so on, but can be constructed as such only by the imposition of the structure of a given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition... 
