The Emergence of the Text: The Linguistic Turn in Historiography 1. Hayden White's challenge b. "History as a discipline is in bad shape today because it has lost sight of its origins in the literary imagination. In the interest of appearing scientific and objective, it has repressed and denied to itself its own greater source of strength and renewal. By drawing historiography back once more to an intimate connection with its literary basis we should not only be putting ourselves on guard against merely ideological distortion; we should by way of arriving at the theory of history without which it cannot pass for a 'discipline at all. (White, 1978,P.99)4 The Emergence of the Text: The Linguistic Turn in Historiography 1. Hayden White’s challenge: … b. “History as a discipline is in bad shape today because it has lost sight of its origins in the literary imagination. In the interest of appearing scientific and objective, it has repressed and denied to itself its own greater source of strength and renewal. By drawing historiography back once more to an intimate connection with its literary basis, we should not only be putting ourselves on guard against merely ideological distortion; we should by way of arriving at the “theory” of history without which it cannot pass for a ‘discipline’ at all.” (White, 1978, P. 99)