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Hayden 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 where narrative is of primary concern, including history, literary studies, anthropology, philosophy, art history, and film and media studies. This volume, deftly introduced by Robert Doran, gathers in one place White's important-and often hard-to-find-essays exploring his revolutionary theories of historical writing and narrative. These texts find White at his most essayistic, engaging a wide range of topics and thinkers with characteristic insight and elegance. The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies.
This quite extraordinary volume covers fifty years of thoughtful and provocative analysis by the world's most formidable scholar of historical practice. These essays offer up Hayden White as a superb stylist, capacious, earnest, iconoclastic, dedicated to lucid pedagogy, time and again showing how history and literature are inextricably related and bringing into the open the rhetorical underpinnings of narrative and nonnarrative history. Reflecting key moments in the intellectual development of a thinker whose insights have now become indelible features of the intellectual landscape, this volume confirms White's reputation as the ironic Vico for our times: trenchant, surprising, brilliant, indefatigable. -- Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley Hayden White's theoretical prominence in the areas of historiography, tropology, and narratology is well known and deservedly influential. We know him less well as a lively and astute analyst of specific texts. This collection-which ranges from historians to philosophers, from literary history to cultural analysis-is a splendid resource and a pleasure to read. -- Fredric Jameson, Duke University
About the Author
Hayden White is a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 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, all published by Johns Hopkins. Robert Doran is an assistant professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Rochester and editor of a collection of essays by Rene Girard, Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005.
Reviews
The book will interest scholars from an array of disciplines... Recommended. Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9780801894794
Author Hayden White
Format Hardback
Page Count 424
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 726g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 31mm
This quite extraordinary volume covers fifty years of thoughtful and provocative analysis by the world's most formidable scholar of historical practice. These essays offer up Hayden White as a superb stylist, capacious, earnest, iconoclastic, dedicated to lucid pedagogy, time and again showing how history and literature are inextricably related and bringing into the open the rhetorical underpinnings of narrative and nonnarrative history. Reflecting key moments in the intellectual development of a thinker whose insights have now become indelible features of the intellectual landscape, this volume confirms White's reputation as the ironic Vico for our times: trenchant, surprising, brilliant, indefatigable. -- Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley Hayden White's theoretical prominence in the areas of historiography, tropology, and narratology is well known and deservedly influential. We know him less well as a lively and astute analyst of specific texts. This collection-which ranges from historians to philosophers, from literary history to cultural analysis-is a splendid resource and a pleasure to read. -- Fredric Jameson, Duke University
About the Author
Hayden White is a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 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, all published by Johns Hopkins. Robert Doran is an assistant professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Rochester and editor of a collection of essays by Rene Girard, Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005.
Reviews
The book will interest scholars from an array of disciplines... Recommended. Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9780801894794
Author Hayden White
Format Hardback
Page Count 424
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 726g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 31mm
