The study of historiography as a literary form making distinct uses of emplotment and tropes has been a favored topic in the theory of history ever since Hayden White published his Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973). Would it be equally possible to conceive of an Asian literary theory of narrative applicable to Asian history writing?
Professor Dr. Hab. Ulrich Timme Kragh (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) is Principal Investigator of the project "Narrative Modes of Historical Discourse in Asia" (NAMO) funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and Director of the "Hayden White Research Center for Narrative Modes"
