The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical RepresentationHayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning—its production, distribution, and consumption—in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. 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
The Question of Narrative in Contemporary | 26 |
Discipline | 58 |
Historical Writing | 83 |
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The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation Hayden White Limited preview - 1990 |
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation Hayden White Limited preview - 1990 |
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation Hayden White Limited preview - 1990 |
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allegory anagogical analysis annalist aspect authority Barthes bourgeois catachresis chronicle claim conceived conception consciousness CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL THEORY CONTENT critical culture discipline distinction Droysen emplotment endow ethical fact fiction Foucault function G. W. F. Hegel given Hayden White Hegel hermeneutics historians historical discourse historical events historical narrative historical studies HISTORICAL WRITING HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ANTI-HUMANISM human sciences ideology imaginary insofar intellectual interpretation J. H. Hexter Jameson kind knowledge language literary literature logical Marx Marxist meaning mode modern moral narration narrative history NARRATIVE IN CONTEMPORARY narrativist narrativization nature Nietzsche nineteenth century notion past Paul Ricoeur philosophy of history plot political Post-Structuralism problem production question real events realism referent reflection represented rhetorical Ricoeur Roland Barthes Roman Jakobson Romanticism Saint Gall semiological sense sexuality simply social society speaking story structure style sublime symbolic temporality theoretical things thought tion tive torical trans truth