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...

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Published in:	Rethinking History Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 229 - 242
Main Author:	Runia1, Eelco
Format:	Essay
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2010
Subjects:	Subjectivity in historiography Metonyms Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744 White, Hayden, 1928-2018 Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in 19th-Century Europe (Book) Language & history Essays
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