White, Burke and the ?literary? nature of historical controversies

TOZZI, VERÓNICA

Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist Perspectives on Rhetoric and Discourse Studies

John Benjamins

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2017; p. 17 - 39

In this article, my aim is to investigate the contributions that literary theory, as a theory of any kind of general discursive construction, can offer to shed light on the nature of historiographical controversies, not only in relation to the difficulty of consensual resolution but with the undesirability of agreeing on a single account of the past. This diagnosis ? we can assert, is general and shared; nobody argues, in social sciences and humanities, in favour of the search for a unified theory, or single account, in our case. But the question is how to account for the plurality, diversity and interpretive conflict, and the consequences of this plurality for research itself.