The fiction of narrative
Subtitle: essays on history, literature, and theory, 1957-2007
By: Hayden White ; edited, with an introduction, by Robert Doran.
Contributors: Doran, Robert, 1968-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801894794; 9780801894800
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature and history; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Collingwood and Toynbee: transitions in English historical thought; title: Religion, culture, and western civilization in Christopher Dawson's idea of history; title: The abiding relevance of Croce's idea of history; title: Romanticism, historicism, and realism: toward a period concept for early nineteenth-century intellectual history; title: The tasks of intellectual history; title: The culture of criticism: Gombrich, Auerbach, Popper; title: The structure of historical narrative; title: What is a historical system?; title: The politics of contemporary philosophy of history; title: The problem of change in literary history; title: The problem of style in realistic representation: Marx and Flaubert; title: The discourse of history; title: Vico and structuralist/poststructuralist thought; title: The interpretation of texts; title: Historical pluralism and pan-textualism; title: 'The nineteenth century' as chronotope; title: Ideology and counter-ideology in Northrop Frye's anatomy of criticism; title: Writing in the middle voice; title: Northrop Frye's place in contemporary cultural studies; title: Storytelling: historical and ideological; title: The suppression of rhetoric in the nineteenth century; title: Postmodernism and textual anxieties; title: Guilty of history? the longue durée of Paul Ricoeur.