Figural Realism : Studies in the Mimesis Effect

• Tác giả: Hayden White
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1421437323
• ISBN-10: book.72311
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 801.95 Criticism
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (222 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 270465
• Chủ đề: 1. History of philosophy, philosophical traditions; 2. History of Western philosophy

Tóm tắt

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."