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The book will interest scholars from an array of disciplines.
White's own three-page preface to this collection is worth the price of admission alone... The essays themselves are a treasure trove... Suffice it to say that for scholars wondering why White's reputation is so formidable they could hardly do better than to start with this collection.
The benefit of The Fiction of Narrative is that it enables us to see in one place White's development from a more traditional historian to the significant cultural critic he has become and to appreciate the range of his intellectual interests.
No other historian appears to be at the frontier of so many developments or so skillful at integrating them into traditional American scholarship in the history of ideas."—
White is a master of critical and provocative thought.
White has arguably changed the course of historiography in the past twenty years... Any serious historian will need to engage the issues and answers that White raises.
White lays out his arguments with a clarity and rigor that few can match.
This quite extraordinary volume covers fifty years of thoughtful and provocative analysis by the world’s most formidable scholar of historical practice. These essays offer up Hayden White as a superb stylist, capacious, earnest, iconoclastic, dedicated to lucid pedagogy, time and again showing how history and literature are inextricably related and bringing into the open the rhetorical underpinnings of narrative and nonnarrative history. Reflecting key moments in the intellectual development of a thinker whose insights have now become indelible features of the intellectual landscape, this volume confirms White’s reputation as the ironic Vico for our times: trenchant, surprising, brilliant, indefatigable.
Hayden White’s theoretical prominence in the areas of historiography, tropology, and narratology is well known and deservedly influential. We know him less well as a lively and astute analyst of specific texts. This collection—which ranges from historians to philosophers, from literary history to cultural analysis—is a splendid resource and a pleasure to read.
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424
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9780801894800
Table of Contents
Editor's Note
Preface
Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgments
1. Collingwood and Toynbee: Transitions in English Historical Thought
2. Religion, Culture, and Western Civilization in Christopher Dawson's Idea
Editor's Note
Preface
Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgments
1. Collingwood and Toynbee: Transitions in English Historical Thought
2. Religion, Culture, and Western Civilization in Christopher Dawson's Idea of History
3. The Abiding Relevance of Croce's Idea of History
4. Romanticism, Historicism, and Realism: Toward a Period Concept for Early Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History
5. The Tasks of Intellectual History
6. The Culture of Criticism: Gombrich, Auerbach, Popper
7. The Structure of Historical Narrative
8. What Is a Historical System?
9. The Politics of Contemporary Philosophy of History
10. The Problem of Change in Literary History
11. The Problem of Style in Realistic Representation: Marx and Flaubert
12. The Discourse of History
13. Vico and Structuralist/Poststructuralist Thought
14. The Interpretation of Texts
15. Historical Pluralism and Pantextualism
16. The "Nineteenth Century" as Chronotope
17. Ideology and Counterideology in Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism
18. Writing in the Middle Voice
19. Northrop Frye's Place in Contemporary Cultural Studies
20. Storytelling: Historical and Ideological
21. The Suppression of Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century
22. Postmodernism and Textual Anxieties
23. Guilty of History? The longue durée of Paul Ricoeur
Notes
Index
