1. ROLAND BARTHE, "'Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives,'" Image,
Music, Text, trans.
Stephen Heath ( New York, 1977), p. 79.
2.The words 'narrative,' 'narration,' 'to narrate,' and so on derive via the Latin gnārus ('knowing,' 'acquainted with,' 'expert,' 'skilful,' and so forth) and narrō ('relate,' 'tell') from the Sanskrit root gnâ ('know'). The same root yields γνώριμος ('knowable,' 'known'): see
EMILE BOISACQ, Dictionnaire étymologique
de la langue grecque ( Heidelberg, 1950), under the entry for this word. My
Thanks to Ted Morris of Cornell, one of our great etymologists.
3. GÉRARD GENETTE, "'Boundaries of Narrative,'" New Literary History 8.1 (Autumn 1976):11.
4. EMILE BENVENISTE as quoted by Genette, "'Boundaries of Narrative,'" p. 9. Cf. BENVENISTE, Problems in General Linguistics, trans.
Mary Elizabeth Meek
( Coral Gables, Fla., 1971), p. 208.
5.See LOVIS O. MINK, "'Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument,'" and LIONEL GOSSMAN
, "'History and Literature,'" in The Writing of History. Literary Form
and Historical Understanding, ed.
Robert H. Canaryand
Henry Kozicki
( Madison, Wis., 1978), with complete bibliography on the problem of
narrative form in historical writing.
6.I discuss
Croce in Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century
Europe ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973), pp. 381-5.
7. PETER GAY, Style in History ( New York, 1974), p. 189.
8. G. W. F. HEGEL, The Philosophy of History, trans.
J. Sibree ( New York, 1956),
pp. 60-1.
9. La cronica di Dino Compagni delle cose occorrenti ne'tempi suoi e La canzone morale
Del Pregio dello stesso autore, ed.
Isidore Del Lungo, 4th edn rev. ( Florence, 1902). Cf. HARRY ELMER BARNES, A History of Historical Writing ( New York, 1962), pp. 80-1.
10.Ibid. p. 5: my translations.
11.See
FRANK KERMODE, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
( Oxford, 1967), chap. 1.
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