text: The study of this topic was partially reshaped by Louis Mink, who considered its various uses in "Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument.
full_question: The study of this topic was partially reshaped by Louis Mink, who considered its various uses in "Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument." A book about this subject has an epigraph from Gaston Bachelard's The Psychoanalysis of Fire stating "One can only study what one has dreamed about." That book analyzes this topic using the literary modes of Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism. An essay on this topic proposes that various intellectuals approach this subject using either the antiquarian, monumental or critical methods. Hayden White wrote a "meta-study" of this subject, whose "use and abuse" is discussed in an untimely meditation by Friedrich Nietzsche. In the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle proposed the "great man theory" of this topic, which is imagined to proceed through the age of gods, the age of heroes and the age of men in The New Science. Giambattista Vico produced a cyclical model of, for 10 points, what study of past human events?
first_sentence: The study of this topic was partially reshaped by Louis Mink, who considered its various uses in "Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument.
raw_answer: history [or metahistory]