The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical

The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaningâ€•its production, distribution, and consumptionâ€•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 transform the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended.
Country USA
Brand Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 21679987
ReleaseDate 1990-08-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780801841156

Country	USA
Brand	Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer	Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	21679987
ReleaseDate	1990-08-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780801841156

The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation