Romsics Gergely: The Memory of the Habsburg Empire in German, Austrian and Hungarian Right-Wing Historiography and Political Thinking 1918 - 1941 - East European Monographs 773. Atlantic Studies on Society Change 137. (New York, 2010)

I. Introduction - 3. Sources and Methodology

23 Sources and Analytical Methodology on the populist writers and domestic Volksgeschichte, and the pro- Habsburg conservative and liberal reaction, which is reminiscent in certain aspects of official Austrian identity politics. The intention is to make it possible to delineate, on the basis of this threefold survey, the contours and principal traits of the spread of völkisch thinking as one of the determinative dimensions of the histoire des mentalites in Central Europe between the two World Wars, thereby furthering an understanding of a complex and problematic moment of the region’s past. Notes 1 One should note, however, that a significant segment of the literature published in Journals, particularly important from the perspective of social influence, is not included among the sources. Several of the most influential or particularlj, relevant Journals from each country are examined, but they by no means represent an exhaustive sample of the vast array of possible source materials. 2 Paul Ricoeur, “Az én és az elbeszélt azonosság” [The Self and Narrative Identity], in Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, ed.. Válogatott irodalomelméleti tanulmányok [Selected Essays on Literary Theory] (Budapest: Osiris, 1999), pp. 373-412; Paul Ricoeur, "Metaphor and the Central Problem of Hermeneutics," in Idem, ed.١ Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation (Cambridge and Paris: Cambridge flniversity Press, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1981), pp. 165-181. Dating from Hayden White’s post-structuralist period, but in essence reiterating his earlier narrative stance in a clearer and more concise form, see Hayden White, “The Value of Narrativity in the Reproduction of ١lea\ ’١V١T \n\<tem١ed.,The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins flniversity Press, 1990), pp. 1-25. 3 The most familiar early example is from the field of folklore: Victor Aaracr, A ritudlisfolyamat: Struktúra és antistruktúra. A Rochester؛ Egyetemen (Rochester. New York) 1966-ban tartott Lewis Henry Morgan előadások [The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti- Structure (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)] (Budapest: Osiris, 2002). The foundational work in political anthropology is Raoul Girardet,

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