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February 10, 2005
Hayden White (02092005)
A historian's efforts to either favor one trope over another, or meditate between them are ubiquious. In Chapter 4, White says,"the form of the putatievly straight hisorical narrative is as much dependent up on the governing tropological mode of figuratoin as the form of any historicist account is dependent upon the theory which it seeks to justify." The various modes in which theory is expressed represent theoretical fomalizations of the tropes of natural language. (116)
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