TITLE:
Truth, Narrative, and Opening Space
AUTHORS:
Matthew Z. Donnelly
KEYWORDS:
Narrative History; Historiography; Narrative Theory; Literary Genres; Philosophy of History
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.2 No.4,
November
8,
2012
ABSTRACT: This paper identifies the difficulties in confronting novel history from both a rigorous scientific and artistic literary perspectives and suggests a practical reconciliation—in the form of a discussion and metaphorical opening space—between the two apparent poles of historical understanding and their accompanying genres, types, and tropes.