The Emergence of the Texts The linguistic Turn in historiography 1. Hayden white 's challenge: "The historical Text as Literary artifact(1978) a."I there is an element of the historical in all poetry, there is an element of poetry in every historical account of the world.. And this because history has no stipulatable subject matter uniquely its own; it is always written as part of a contest between contending poetic figurations of what the past might consist of (White, 1978, P.98)2 The Emergence of the Text: The Linguistic Turn in Historiography 1. Hayden White’s challenge: “The Historical Text as Literary Artifact” (1978) a. “If there is an element of the historical in all poetry, there is an element of poetry in every historical account of the world. …And this because history has no stipulatable subject matter uniquely its own; it is always written as part of a contest between contending poetic figurations of what the past might consist of.” (White, 1978, P. 98)