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The Content of the Form Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation / Hayden White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Hayden V., 1928-2018.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 244 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality
- 2. The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory
- 3. The Politics of Historical Interpretation: Discipline and De-Sublimation
- 4. Droysen's Historik: Historical Writing as a Bourgeois Science
- 5. Foucault's Discourse: The Historiography of Anti-Humanism
- 6. Getting Out of History: Jameson's Redemption of Narrative
- 7. The Metaphysics of Narrativity: Time and Symbol in Ricoeur's Philosophy of History
- 8. The Context in the Text: Method and Ideology in Intellectual History
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780801896149
- 0801896142
- 9780801841156
- 0801841151
- OCLC:
- 1204143221
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb04929 hdl
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