Figural realism
Subtitle: studies in the mimesis effect
By: Hayden White.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Criticism.; History in literature.; Mimesis in literature.; Literature and history.; Historiography.
Description: 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," White observes, "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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-199) and index.