Historical Narratives (Routledge Approaches to History)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
	1 Naturalizing Narratives: Gestalt Principles and Narrative Construction
	2 There Is No God’s-Eye View: The World Is Seen in Many Different Ways
	3 Rethinking Historical Aspects: A Critique
	4
	in Historical Narratives
	5 Understanding vs Knowledge: A Framework for Narrative Evaluation
	6 Historical Narratives as Instances of Understanding
	7 The Debate About a Certain Encounter: Discovery or Invention?
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Notes
	Bibliography
1 Naturalizing Narratives
	Gestalt Principles
	Historical Narratives and Organization
	Foreground and Background in Narrative
	Continuity in Narrative
	Proximity and Similarity in Narrative
		Establishing Proximity and Similarity between Epoch A and Epoch B
		The Use of Concepts
	Closure in Narrative
	Notes
	Bibliography
2 There Is No God’s-Eye View
	Notes
	Bibliography
3 Rethinking Historical Aspects
	The Correspondence Realist Theory
	The Representationalist Theory
	Notes
	Bibliography
4 Seeing-As in Historical Narratives
	Seeing-As: Clothing with Interpretation
	Seeing-As: Clothing with Organization
	Historical Aspects: A New Proposal
	Historical Aspects: Interpreting and Organizing
	Historical Aspects: Diversity
	Historical Aspects: Non-Aggregative
	Notes
	Bibliography
5 Understanding vs Knowledge
	Notes
	Bibliography
6 Historical Narratives as Instances of Understanding
	A Postnarrative Approach to Epistemic Evaluation
	A Narrative Approach to Epistemic Evaluation
	Notes
	Bibliography
7 The Debate About a Certain Encounter
	Discovery
	Invention
	Epistemic Evaluation
	Notes
	Bibliography
Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Index