Literárna dimenzia historických narácií a jej charakter v súčasnej postmodernej kultúre

Abstract

The author of the article presents Hayden White’s understanding of historical narrative. This tropological understanding of history emphasizes common constructive processes in the writing of fiction and historical narrative. According to White, historians use fictive elements (narrative structures) in writing historical narratives, which are important for their understanding. This is the opposite view to the traditional “scientific” understanding of historical narratives which suppose that the significance of literary dimension of historical narrative disappears in the process of creating one universal narrative about the past. Contemporary postmodern culture supports radical plurality of historical narratives, which reduces the possibility of writing such a universal historical narrative. From the point of view of the author, the developing era of digitalization will have a negative impact on literary skill of young generation as well as the writing of historical narrative