...realize these aims, I will consider the historical work as what it most manifestly is— that is to say, a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose...interest of explaining what they were by representing them.4 1 See my "The Burden of History," History and Theorv. 3. no. z (1966): 111-34, for a discussion...

...traditional boundary between historical and imaginative writing. For White, the historical text is "a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose...interest of explaining what they were by representing them" (2, White's italics). The key terms in his statement are "purports" and "icon," words that suggest...

...textualism. Thus Hayden White defines a "historical work as what it manifestly is — that is to say, a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose...interest of explaining what they were by representing them."40 The French linguistic scholars AJ Greimas and J. Courtes take a similar view in their Semiotics...

...historical work as predominant. He believes the historical work to be a "verbal structure in the form of narrative prose discourse that purports to be a model,...interest of explaining what they were by representing them" (p. 2). Borrowing freely from literary and historical scholars such as Northrop Frye, Kenneth...

...realize these aims, I will consider the historical work as what it most manifestly is — that is to say, a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose...interest of explaining what they were by representing them.4 My method, in short, is formalist. I will not try to decide whether a given historian's work...

...will consider the historical work as what it most manifestly is - a verbal structure in the form of narrative prose discourse that purports to be a model,...interest of explaining what they were by representing them." White further notes that the historical work lies at the intersection of a historical past,...

...verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose discourse that purports to be a model, or icon, of the past structures and processes in the interest of explaining what they were by representing them" (2; emphasis in the original). ln drastically simplified terms, it is the central thesis of Metahistory...

...permanence or of pure contingency. White offered the alternative to that by defining a historical account as "a verbal structure in the form of a narrative...interest of explaining what they were by representing them."16 Truth and Evidence in the New Narrativist Perspective Empiricists spoke of evidence as elements...

...storytelling under the guise of truth." 14. In Metahistory, White argues that a historical work is "a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose...interest of explaining what they were by representing them." Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...

...history into "cliometrics." White proposed to take a completely different view. "I will consider the historical work as ... a verbal structure in the form...interest of explaining what they were by representing them," he announced.3 In an article published a few years later, White was even more explicit in assimilating...