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The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007 by Hayden White
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century. The Ethics of Narrative brings together nearly all of White's uncollected essays from the... -
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007 by Hayden White 9781501764738
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.02Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century. The Ethics of Narrative brings together nearly all of White's uncollected essays from the... -
Hayden White by Herman Paul 9780745650135
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05This new book offers a clear and accessible exposition of Hayden White's thought. In an engaging and wide-ranging analysis, Herman Paul discusses White's core ideas and traces the development of... -
The Practical Past by Hayden White 9780810130067
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and literary-artistic artifacts that individuals and... -
Hayden White by Herman Paul 9780745650142
Booksplease Price: £18.18This new book offers a clear and accessible exposition of Hayden White's thought. In an engaging and wide-ranging analysis, Herman Paul discusses White's core ideas and traces the development of... -
Re-Figuring Hayden White by Frank Ankersmit
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature... -
Re-Figuring Hayden White by Frank Ankersmit 9780804760034
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature... -
Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect by Hayden White
Booksplease Price: £27.10Originally 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... -
Philosophy of History After Hayden White by Robert Doran 9781474248860
Booksplease Price: £37.81This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has... -
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Hayden White 9781421415604
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.14Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep... -
Tropes for the Past: Hayden White and the History / Literature Debate by Kuisma Korhonen 9789042017184
Booksplease Price: £50.82In the last decades, there has been an intense debate on the relationship between literature and historiography, often linked to the debate between "empiricists" and... -
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017 by Hayden White 9781501773587
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.32The 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,... -
The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957–2007 by Hayden White 9780801894794
RRP: £52.50Booksplease Price: £38.70Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines... -
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017 by Hayden White 9781501773594
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The 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,... -
Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage by Lubomir Dolezel 9780801894633
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £37.36With Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomir Dole el reexamines the claim-made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White-that "there is no fundamental distinction between... -
Polish Theory of History and Metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk: From Hayden White and Beyond Jan Pomorski 9781032494630
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analysing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built upon and transgressed the metahistorical theories... -
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Hayden V. White 9780801841156
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.56Hayden 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... -
Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. by Martin Jay
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or... -
Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. by Martin Jay 9780812224962
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or... -
The Degradation of American History by David Harlan
Booksplease Price: £30.43American historical writing has traditionally been a primary form of moral reflection. However, this study argues that, in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive... -
Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema by Teresa de Lauretis
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56"There is hardly a page in this collection of hard-thought and brilliantly written essays that does not yield some new insight." -Hayden White" . . . de Lauretis's writing is brisk and refreshingly... -
Time and Narrative: v. 1 by D. Pellauer
Booksplease Price: £21.05Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the... -
Historical Theory by Mary Fulbrook 9780415179874
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Practising historians claim that their accounts of the past are something other than fiction, myth or propaganda. Yet there are significant challenges to this view, most notably from postmodernism... -
The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies by Alun Munslow
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas and theories which have... -
The Aesthetics of History by Alun Munslow
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book offers an understanding and analysis of the aesthetics of historying through the specific concepts and process of the fabricated, factitious, factional, factious, factitive, factive,... -
Refiguring History: New Thoughts On an Old Discipline Keith Jenkins (University College Chichester, UK) 9780415244114
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83In this engaging sequel to Rethinking History, Keith Jenkins argues for a re-figuration of historical study. At the core of his survey lies the realization that objective and disinterested histories... -
Deconstructing History by Alun Munslow 9780415391443
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Surveying the latest research, this welcome second edition of Alun Munslow's successful Deconstructing History provides an excellent introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history... -
On 'What Is History?': From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White Keith Jenkins (University College Chichester, UK) 9780415097253
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83On `What is History?' provides a student introduction to contemporary historiographical debates.Carr and Elton are still the starting point for the vast majority of introductory courses on the nature... -
Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture by Victoria E. Bonnell
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.45Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the... -
The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007 by Hayden V. White
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.51Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines... -
How to Write About the Holocaust: The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis by Theodor Pelekanidis 9781032123998
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical framework that has developed in... -
Liberating Histories Claire Norton (St. Mary's University College, UK) 9780415856546
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historical practices. Arguing against the idea that... -
At the Limits of History: Essays on Theory and Practice Keith Jenkins (University College Chichester, UK) 9780415472364
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49"Why bother with history? Keith Jenkins has an answer. He helps us re-think the "end of history", as signalled by postmodernity. Readers may disagree with him, but he never fails to provoke debate... -
Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience Peter Icke 9781032927534
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well... -
The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory Chiel van den Akker (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9781032117454
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This Companion provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to. The book offers both historical and systematic... -
Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy by John D. Lyons 9780691602684
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John... -
30 Great Books That Made History Jaume Aurell 9781509562411
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Today, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of... -
30 Great Books That Made History Jaume Aurell 9781509562404
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Today, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of... -
The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings by Neil Levi 9780813533537
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04The first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable... -
Making Sense in Life and Literature by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 9780816619542
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48“The translation of these essays by Gumbrecht on literary theory and history marks the appearance in English of one of Europe’s most learned, productive, and inventive scholars. Their range is...