The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation - Hardcover

White, Hayden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801829372 ISBN 13: 9780801829376

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning—its production, distribution, and consumption—in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in "the content of the form," in the way our narrative capacities transform the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended.

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Hayden White is professor of the history of consciousness and Presidential Professor of Historical Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, both available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801829372
• ISBN 13: 9780801829376
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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