Figural realism : studies in the mimesis effect
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Figural realism : studies in the mimesis effect
(Johns Hopkins paperbacks)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, c1999
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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."
Table of Contents
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
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