![]() ![]() ![]() This paper observes how Hayden White effectively institutionalizes history to be containing fictitious elements and how the past events are processed with the contact of imagination to arrange historical dialogue. This paper tries to find how Hayden White in his essay, ?The Historical Text as Literary Artifact? provides the evidences of history, is to be constructed of the narrative strategies developed commonly in producing any work of arts. Metahistory is Hayden Whites latest attempt to develop a critique and alter- native to the understandings of history and the writing of history which have come to dominate Western thought since the Enlightenment. ![]() History is one of the important ways to scrutinize literature, in the same way literary practices are engaged in producing history. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. The paper tries to assist the readers about getting the meaning of historical justification and develop a kind of knowledge that is beneficial in understanding his ideas. hayden white -history has a story instead of having events and facts -reader is bringing subjectivity into the text -Genres of narrative. To examine the aspects of Philosophy, Psychology, History, and Sociology especially in literary canon is the universal experience at the present time. The aim of this paper is to examine the ideas and theories of Hayden White, one of the luminaries in the studies of History and Literary theories. ![]()
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