Figural Realism

Studies in the Mimesis Effect
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3730-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

Originally published in 1998. 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."

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Hayden

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

White, Hayden
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.

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.