Temps et récit : un défi pour l'écriture de l'histoire. À propos d'une lecture ricœurienne de Landscape and Memory de Simon Schama

Authors

  • Josef Řídký Faculté des lettres, Université Charles de Prague

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2017.391

Keywords:

historiography, interpretation, time, narrativism, and Simon Schama

Abstract

During the past fifty years, a dispute over the nature of historical discourse has taken place with the narrativist approach, arguing for the dominance of narration in history, on the one hand, and professional historians defending historiography's will to tell the truth, on the other. Paul Ricoeur entered the discussion with his work Time and Narrative where he offered an inventive response. According to him, both narration and scientific explication are essential to historical discourse. To support his statement, he introduces terms such as ‘a third time,‘ ‘a quasi-narration’ or ‘a historical consciousness.’ Thus, he shifts attention from narration to time. These terms can prove their usefulness when interpreting historical works. In the rest of the article, we aim to carry out such an interpretation on the example of Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama. In a Ricœurian perspective, Schama's book reveals its deep time significance.

Author Biography

Josef Řídký, Faculté des lettres, Université Charles de Prague

étudiant en doctorat, Le Département de la littérature tchèque et de la littérature comparée

Published

2017-07-31

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