Here's what's available in RG that I hope would be helpful:

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?query=%20analysing%20an%20historical%20text&type=publication

Best regards,

Debra

Here's what's available in RG that I hope would be helpful:

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?query=%20analysing%20an%20historical%20text&type=publication

Best regards,

Debra

Dear what do you think about historiographic metafictional method?? This critical concept is given by Linda Hutcheon. Following her "Poetics of Post-modernism", you can apply this concept and can well interpret your text. I found this concept useful in my one of the current papers. My paper is under review process in which I analysed historical events of WWII, Indian Sub-continental issues etc. Most of the authors retold history from fictional text. They consciously intermingle history with fiction. If you think that your selected author is intermingling his art with history and his personality is reflecting in his pages so this method may be useful.

 Let see the attached links. These may be useful..

http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1807/3460

https://www.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/24615_01_Wodak_Ch_01.pdf

http://www.uv.es/gimenez/Recursos/criticaldiscourse.pdf

Critical Discourse Analysis may be fine method..

Best Regards,

I would suggest that Michel Foucault's tough "Archaeology of Knowledge" is one of the best resources to refer. The book will help you how to identify different voices in the text. The concept of discursive formation is very helpful for such a text.

For a current method, you call also refer to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that allows you to describe, interpret, and explain the opaque relationship between language and authors, their power and voices. CDA will help you interpret, among others, dominance and exclusion. The analysis of interdiscursivity in CDA  is will be helpful. 

Hi Ksenia, 

It may be useful if you could specify which text you seek to analyse.  There is a chance that some is acquanted with it and thus is able to offer a more custom taylored methodological framework,  although all suggested methods are potentially applicabale.  I would also boost Mustafa Ar' s suggestion,  the particular methodological  version of CDA you may want to pursue is discourse historical approach.  Finally, i persinally believe that it is a good idea to start wih an outline of the text' s original emergence followed by a genelogy of all subsequent relevant occurances and uses,  only then to analyse it against the hypothesis with the methidilogy i am comfortable with.  Hope this is of some use value to you. 

Thank you all for your suggestions! It is very helpful for me. I am working on analyzing leadership principles in the Rule of St. Benedict http://www.osb.org/rb/. A discourse historical approach seems the best way to go. 

Hello,

By way of shameless self-promotion I'd like to suggest my recent book, just out from Polity Press in Cambidge, entitled "Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture" which presents a methodology intended for facilitating cross-cultural comparisons of historical phenomena. I am attaching the introduction and outline, please have a look to decide whether this might be of any help, as I think it might be. 

With best wishes,

Rein Raud

Dear Ksenia, Adalbert de Vogüé has written an entire monograph on exactly that subject (the abbot in the Rule of St Benedict). Still highly recommended. best wishes, SV