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ON HISTORY CONSIDERED AS EPIC POETRY
Author(s) -
BERMEJO BARRERA JOSÉ CARLOS
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
history and theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1468-2303
pISSN - 0018-2656
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2005.00317.x
Subject(s) - evocation , poetry , epic , metaphysics , expression (computer science) , literature , history of literature , philosophy , epistemology , history , art , computer science , programming language
This essay defines history as an interaction of three elements: description, evocation, and expression. These three elements should interact and combine without any of them over‐whelming the remaining two. In combining the three elements, history carries on from epic poetry, which was its source. Highlighting the three elements reveals the ways history synthesizes the three historical stages outlined by Comte, namely, the theological, the metaphysical, and the scientific.