Figural Realism Studies in the Mimesis Effect

Name: Figural Realism Studies in the Mimesis Effect
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ISBN: 9780801865244

ISBN-10: 0801865247

ISBN-13: 9780801865244

Edition: 2000

Authors: Hayden White

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"Hayden White... is the most prominent American scholar to unite historiography and literary criticism into a broader reflection on narrative and cultural understanding." -- The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 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…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 12/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Literary Theory and Historical Writing



Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth in Historical Representation



Formalist and Contextualist Strategies in Historical Explanation



The Modernist Event



Auerbach's Literary History: Figural Causation and Modernist Historicism



Freud's Tropology of Dreaming



Narrative, Description, and Tropology in Proust



Form, Reference, and Ideology in Musical Discourse


Notes


Index