The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

by Hayden White

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Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning--its production, distribution, and consumption--in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801841151

ISBN13:9780801841156

Release Date:August 1990

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.87 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Historical Study & Educational Resources Historiography History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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