Metahistory The Historical Imagination In Nineteenth Century Europe
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Metahistory
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Author : Hayden White
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-12-30
Metahistory written by Hayden White and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use literary techniques to write sophisticated historical works. Since 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 structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic content—which White dubs the "metahistorical element"—essentially serves as a paradigm for what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be. To support his thesis, White analyzes the complex writing styles of historians like Michelet, Ranke, Tocqueville, and Burckhardt, and philosophers of history such as Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Croce. The first work in the history of historiography to concentrate on historical writing as writing, Metahistory sets out to deprive history of its status as a bedrock of factual truth, to redeem narrative as the substance of historicality, and to identify the extent to which any distinction between history and ideology on the basis of the presumed scientificity of the former is spurious. This fortieth-anniversary edition includes a new preface in which White explains his motivation for writing Metahistory and discusses how reactions to the book informed his later writing. In a new foreword, Michael S. Roth, a former student of White's and the current president of Wesleyan University, reflects on the significance of the book across a broad range of fields, including history, literary theory, and philosophy. This book will be of interest to anyone—in any discipline—who takes the past as a serious object of study.
Metahistory
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Author : Hayden White
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1975-08
Metahistory written by Hayden White and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-08 with History categories.
In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an appropriate historical explanation should be.
Metahistory The Historical Imagination In Nineteenth Century Europe
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Author : Hayden White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Metahistory The Historical Imagination In Nineteenth Century Europe written by Hayden White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Historiography categories.
The Fiction Of Narrative
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Author : Hayden White
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2010-06
The Fiction Of Narrative written by Hayden White and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06 with History categories.
For students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies, Robert Doran (French and comparative literature, U. of Rochester) gathers together 23 previously uncollected essays written by theorist and historian Hayden White (comparative literature, Stanford U.) from 1957 to 2007, on his theories of historical writing and narrative. Essays are organized chronologically and reveal the evolution of White's thought and its relationship to theories of the time, as well as the impact on the way scholars think about historical representation, the discipline of history, and how historiography intersects with other areas, especially literary studies. They specifically address theory of tropes, theory of narrative, and figuralism.
Metahistory
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Author : Hayden White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Metahistory written by Hayden White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
The Content Of The Form
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Author : Hayden White
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1990-08
The Content Of The Form written by Hayden White and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-08 with History categories.
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.
Historical Theory
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Author : Mary Fulbrook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-10-04
Historical Theory written by Mary Fulbrook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-04 with History categories.
Practising 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. In Historical Theory, a prominent historian develops a highly original argument that evaluates the diversity of approaches to history and points to a constructive way forward. Mary Fulbrook argues that all historians face key theoretical questions, and that an emphasis on the facts alone is not enough. Against postmodernism, she argures that historical narratives are not simply inventions imposed on the past, and that some answers to historical questions are more plausible or adequate than others. Illustrated with numerous substantive examples and its focus is always on the most central theoretical issues and on real strategies for bridging the gap between the traces of the past and the interpretations of the present. Historical Theory is essential and enlightening reading for all historians and their students.
The Greco Roman Tradition
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Author : Hayden V. White
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1973
The Greco Roman Tradition written by Hayden V. White and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with History categories.
A black girl's stay during the school year with a white suburban family sparks off many tensions within the household.
Allegory And Ideology
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Author : Fredric Jameson
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2019-05-07
Allegory And Ideology written by Fredric Jameson and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore needs to be supplemented by an account of this simultaneous processing of multiple meanings, rather than an abandonment to liberal pluralisms and tolerant (or intolerant) relativisms. This is not a book about "method", but it does propose a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath the heterogeneities that reflect our biological individualities, our submersion in collective history and class struggle, and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and abstraction. Eschewing the arid secularities of philosophy, Walter Benjamin once recommended the alternative of the rich figurality of an older theology; in that spirit we here return to the antiquated Ptolemaic systems of ancient allegory and its multiple levels (a proposal first sketched out in The Political Unconscious); it is tested against the epic complexities of the overtly allegorical works of Dante, Spenser and the Goethe of Faust II, as well as symphonic form in music, and the structure of the novel, postmodern as well as Third-World: about which a notorious essay on National Allegory is here reprinted with a theoretical commentary; and an allegorical history of emotion is meanwhile rehearsed from its contemporary, geopolitical context.
Re Figuring Hayden White
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Author : Frank Ankersmit
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-24
Re Figuring Hayden White written by Frank Ankersmit and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-24 with Philosophy categories.
Produced 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 and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays address the key concepts of White's intellectual career, including tropes, narrative, figuralism, and the historical sublime while exploring the place of White's work in the philosophy of history, postmodernism, and ethics. They also discuss his role as historian and teacher and apply his ideas to specific historical events.