Hayden White Quote

In fact, I would argue that these mythic modes are more easily identifiable in historiographical than they are in 'literary' texts. For historians usually work with much less linguistic (and therefore less poetic) self-consciousness than writers of fiction do. They tend to treat language as a transparent vehicle of representation that brings no cognitive baggage of its own into the discourse.

"The fictions of factual representation"

In fact, I would argue that these mythic modes are more easily identifiable in historiographical than they are in 'literary' texts. For historians...

In fact, I would argue that these mythic modes are more easily identifiable in historiographical than they are in 'literary' texts. For historians...

In fact, I would argue that these mythic modes are more easily identifiable in historiographical than they are in 'literary' texts. For historians...

In fact, I would argue that these mythic modes are more easily identifiable in historiographical than they are in 'literary' texts. For historians...