...Historical narrative itself can be spoken of as an extended metaphor: As a symbolic structure, [it] does not reproduce the events it describes; it tells...about the events with different emotional valences. [Historical narratives] succeed in endowing sets of past events, over and above whatever comprehension...

...their underlying mythoi,19 which sets Geoffrey apart. White has suggested that historical narrative "tells us in what direction to think about the events and charges our thoughts about the events with different emotional valences";20 I will argue that Geoffrey sets his...

...permits us to speak of a historical narrative as an extended metaphor. As a symbolic structure, the historical narrative does not reproduce the events...narrative does not image the things it indicates; it calk to mind images of the things it indicates, in the same way that a metaphor does. When a given...

...rather than representational, is essentially figurative and allegorical: "As a symbolic structure, the historical narrative does not reproduce the events...about the events with different emotional valences . . . Properly understood, histories ought never to be read as unambiguous signs of the events they...

...is figurative. In this manner, historical text can be considered an "extended metaphor" because it "does not reproduce the events it describes; it tells...thought about the events with different emotional valences."14 Furthermore, White maintains that historical writing is dominated by narrative, or storytelling,...

..."mysterious" (49), is thus rendered familiar and culturally relevant: "As a symbolic structure, the historical narrative does not reproduce the events...about the events with different emotional valences" (52). With this process of narrativization, though, the historian inevitably "translates" (53) fact...

...in which the creative powers of the Filipino can finally be showcased. 'As a symbolic structure, the historical narrative does not reproduce the events...about the events with different emotional valences.' Hayden White, The Historical Text as Literary Artifact' in Between History and Literature, ed. Lionel...

...Hayden White plantea la función mediadora de la narración histórica: As a symbolic structure, the historical narrative does not reproduce the events...charges our thought about the events with different emocional valences. [Como estructura simbólica, la narrativa histórica no reproduce los eventos que...

...order to identify the proper feeling toward the event. As White states, "the historical narrative . . . tells us in what direction to think about the events and charges our thought about the event with different emotional valences."58 Both reader and historian must share in this cultural literacy...