Abstract
Discussions on Narrative History and New Approaches
This article, first of all, aims to explain discussions in the academic world concerning narrative history in terms of style, language, content and theory. Thus, it would be possible to demonstrate weaknesses and strengths of narrative history writing – an old and often-used way of writing history- in comparison with some other historical approaches. Secondly, new approaches to narrative history called by some historians as ‘new narrative’ will be discussed. As a result of all these discussions and evaluations it is aimed at contributing a better understanding of narrative history, which is widely used in Turkish history writing but little known in terms of theory and methodology. <
Keywords
Narrative, History, Style, Language, Method.