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EALC Speaker Series Lecture - Ulrich Timme Kragh, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan,
Poland): “An Asian Theory of Narrative in Historical Discourse”
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Location
- Room 1064, Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana
- Date
- Oct 23, 2019 4:00 - 5:20 pm
- Speaker
- Ulrich Timme Kragh, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland)
- Cost
- Free and open to the public.
- Contact
- Gian Piero Persiani
- E-Mail
- gp2029@illinois.edu
- Views
- 16
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 Kragh will here introduce the outcomes of a five-year research project devoted to this question, giving examples of how literary notions of plot, trope, and historicity drawn from classical Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan sources can be turned into a modern methodology for a narrativist study of Asian historical discourse.