 | Daniel Boyarin - 1994 - 180 ページ
...it can be taken as a prototype — a privileged type — of all midrashic narrative interpretation. It is here that Hayden White's work on the theory...his account of the past with the odor of meaning or significance.51 perforce emplotted his discourse using the plot structures that carry the ideology... | |
 | Dell H. Hymes - 1996 - 282 ページ
...finally revealed to figure a recognizable structure of relationships of a specifically mythic sort. In other words, the historian must draw upon a fund...the past with the odor of meaning or significance (p. 294). One can argue, in fact, that just as there can be no explanation in history without a story,... | |
 | Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist - 1998 - 824 ページ
...of narrative representation some notion of the "pre-generic plot-structure" by which the story lie tells is endowed with formal coherency. In other words,...the past with the odor of meaning or significance. If, as LeviStrauss correctly observes, one can tell a host of different stories about the single set... | |
 | Donald James Puchala - 2003 - 288 ページ
...considerations to bear on the meaning of war in international history. To summarize, then, in White's words, "the historian must draw upon a fund of culturally...his account of the past with the odor of meaning or significance."2 ' Reading the Texts of War Nationalistic historians writing in a traditional genre... | |
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In other words, the historian must draw upon a fund of culturally provided mythoi in order to constitute the facts as figuring a story of a particular kind, just as he must appeal to that same fund of mythoi... 