Practice question · Multiple choice
Set aside what the linguistic turn threatened. What did it durably give the discipline?
Hints
- White's observation was about form. Ask what taking it seriously changes about how a historian writes.
- The threat was to objectivity. What was the gift?
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B. Attention to the historian's own rhetoric as an interpretive act
Why
Emplotment is a choice with consequences, and noticing it made historians answerable for the shape of their accounts as well as their footnotes. Working historians largely rejected the strong relativist conclusion and kept the formal self-awareness, which is a fair description of what survives.
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