Summary Of "Narration And Historical Representation" By María Inés La Greca - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. NARRATION AND HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION:FIGURATION AND LITERARY RESOURCES IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST                 1. INTRODUCTIONThe typical way in which historians present the events of the past has been narratives. The relevance of this way of ordering past processes (beginning, middle and end of the historical process as a whole) has been questioned, pointing out that the narration is a historical interpretation of the facts, but that this form of discourse is only a communication resource.
secondary to the real goal of knowledge of the past. On the contrary, some theorists in the 20th century argued in favor of the narrative character of historical representation, affirming that it makes the specific way in which knowledge about the past is produced and achieved.