The Ethics of Narrative. Volume 2 : Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007-2017 / Hayden White ; edited and with an introduction by Robert Doran ; foreword by Mieke Bal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Hayden V., 1928-2018, author.

Contributor:

Doran, Robert, 1968- editor.

Bal, Mieke, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Literature and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the first volume, volume 2 features White's trenchant articulations of his influential theories, as well as his explorations of a wide range of ideas and authors at the frontiers of critical theory, literature, and historical studies. These include the concept of utopia in history, modernism and postmodernism, constructivism, the conceptualization of historical periods such as "the Sixties" and "the Enlightenment, " the representation of the Holocaust in scholarly and literary writing, as well as essays on Frank Kermode, Saul Friedländer, and Krzysztof Pomian.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Editor's Note

Acknowledgments

Editor's Introduction

1. The Future of Utopia in History

2. Reflections on "Gendre" in the Discourses of History

3. Postmodernism and Historiography

4. Anomalies of the Canon in Modernity

5. Modern Politics and the Historical Imaginary

6. Historical Fictions: Frank Kermode's Idea of History in The Sense of an Ending

7. The Substance of the Sixties

8. The History-Fiction Divide in Holocaust Studies

9. The Limits of Enlightenment: Enlightenment as Metaphor and Concept

10. Outcasts, Monsters, and Simulacra of History

11. Modernism and the Sense of History

12. Historical Truth, Estrangement, and Disbelief: On Saul Friedländer's Nazi Germany and the Jews

13. At the Limits of the Concept

14. Krzysztof Pomian's Modernist Theory of Culture

15. Constructionism in Historical Writing

16. Primitivism and Modernism

17. Is My Life a Story?

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781501773969

1501773968