Inventing the new from the old - from White's 'tropics' to Vico's 'topics'.
Hayden White said a long time ago that it is important 'to understand what is fictive in all putatively realistic representations of the world, and what is realistic in all manifestly fictive ones.' In the past decades only the first half of this project has been taken up: White's own 'tropics' can...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 229 - 242 |
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