Tropes for the past : Hayden White and the history/literature debate / edited by Kuisma Korhonen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Korhonen, Kuisma, 1964-

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 96.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical fiction--History and criticism--Congresses.

Historical fiction.

History, Modern--20th century--Historiography--Congresses.

History, Modern.

Literature and history--Congresses.

Literature and history.

Other (Philosophy)--Comparative studies--Congresses.

Other (Philosophy).

White, Hayden V., 1928-.

White, Hayden V.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the last decades, there has been an intense debate on the relationship between literature and historiography, often linked to the debate between "empiricists" and "postmodernists". The aim of this collective work is to address this debate, and to search for new ways of thinking and encountering the past. The key note for the book comes from Hayden White, one of the leading academic figures, whose role in launching the contemporary history/literature debate has been crucial. It is followed by three critical readings of his work, all suggesting new ways to apply or challenge his views. In other chapters of the book, history / literature question is then addressed from three points of view: narrativity, history as literature, and literature as history. Tropes for the Past is an ideal introduction to the literature/historiography debate and Hayden White's role in it. It will be of use for all students and scholars in the philosophy of history and in historically oriented literary, cultural, and social studies.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Kuisma KORHONEN: General Introduction: The History/Literature Debate

I Hayden White and Textuality of History

Introduction to Part I

Hayden WHITE: Historical Discourse and Literary Writing

Herman PAUL: An Ironic Battle against Irony: Epistemological and Ideological Irony in Hayden White's Philosophy of History,1955-1973

Stanley CORKIN and Phyllis FRUS: History and Textuality: Film and the Modernist Event

Kalle PIHLAINEN: The Confines of the Form: Historical Writing and the Desire that It Be what It Is Not

II Narrativity

Introduction to Part II

Karl-Heinz STIERLE: Narrativization of the World

Matti HYVÄRINEN: Life as Sequence and Narrative: Hayden White Meets Paul Auster

III History as Literature

Introduction to Part III

Andrew BURRELL: Narratives of the Fake: The Collected Object, Personal Histories and Constructed Memory

Fiona MCINTOSH-VARJABÉDIAN: Probability and Persuasion in 18th-Century and 19th-Century Historical Writing

Claire NORTON : Fiction or Non-fiction? Ottoman Accounts of the Siege of Nagykanizsa

IV Literature as History

Introduction to Part IV

Markku LEHTIMÄKI: History as a Crazy House: Norman Mailer, Hayden White, and the Representation of the Modernist Event

Olabode IBIRONKE: Monumental Time in Caribbean Literature

Lara OKIHIRO: Divergence and Confluence: Mapping the Streams of Hiroshima

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Most papers are based on a conference called "Literature and its Others," held at University of Turku, Finland, 8-10 May 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0006-8

1-4237-9130-4

OCLC:

70857624

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401200066 DOI