Society, History, and Literary View

Abstract

The paper deals with some of the transformations of historiography that took place in the last hundred years and focuses especially on literary and narrative forms and their role in historiography. After rejection of eventuating history and attempts to develop structural approaches in its analyses we witness today an existence of two contrasting trends. On one hand we can witness a renaissance of a narrative form in historiography; on the other we see an emergence of a self-narration, which is a consequence of ahistoric fractalization of contemporary perception of reality.