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

White, Hayden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801841151 ISBN 13: 9780801841156

Verlag: JHUP, 1990

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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 emeritus of the histories of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of a number of books published by Johns Hopkins, including Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, and Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.

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• Verlag: JHUP
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801841151
• ISBN 13: 9780801841156
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
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