Figural Realism
Studies in the Mimesis Effect
Seiten
1999
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-5997-7 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-5997-7 (ISBN)
In this volume, the author collects eight of his interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. He asserts that history is not only a subject we can study, but also a relationship to "the past" mediated by written discourse.
"Hayden White...is the most prominent American scholar to unite historiography and literary criticism into a broader reflection on narrative and cultural understanding." --'The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism' In his earlier books such as 'Tropics of Discourse' and 'The Content of the Form', Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In 'Figural Realism', White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. "'History' is not only an object we can study," writes White, "it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediated by a distinctive kind of written discourse. It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography."
"Hayden White...is the most prominent American scholar to unite historiography and literary criticism into a broader reflection on narrative and cultural understanding." --'The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism' In his earlier books such as 'Tropics of Discourse' and 'The Content of the Form', Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In 'Figural Realism', White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. "'History' is not only an object we can study," writes White, "it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediated by a distinctive kind of written discourse. It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography."
Hayden White is professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include 'Metahistory', 'Tropics of Discourse', and 'The Content of the Form ', all available from Johns Hopkins.
Preface
Ackowledgments
Chapter 1. Literary Theory and Historical Writing
Chapter 2. Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth in Historical Representations
Chapter 3. Formalist and Contextualist Strategies in Historical Explanation
Chapter 4. The Modernist Event
Chapter 5. Auerbach's Literary History: Figural Causation and Modernist Historicism
Chapter 6. Freud's Tropology of Dreaming
Chapter 7. Narrative, Description, and Tropology in Proust
Chapter 8. Form, Reference, and Ideology in Musical Discourse
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.3.1999 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 476 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-5997-2 / 0801859972 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-5997-7 / 9780801859977 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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