Tropes for the Past : Hayden White and the History / Literature Debate.
In the last decades, there has been an intense debate on the relationship between literature and historiography, often linked to the debate between "empiricists" and "postmodernists". The aim of this collective work is to address this debate, and to search for new ways of thinkin...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Amsterdam : BRILL, 2006. |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction: The History/Literature Debate
- I Hayden White and Textuality of History
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 Historical Discourse and Literary Writing
- 2 An Ironic Battle against Irony: Epistemological and Ideological Irony in Hayden White's Philosophy of History, 1955-1973
- 3 History and Textuality: Film and the Modernist Event
- 4 The Confines of the Form: Historical Writing and the Desire that It Be what It Is Not
- II Narrativity
- Introduction to Part II
- 5 Narrativization of the World
- 6 Life as Sequence and Narrative: Hayden White Meets Paul Auster
- III History as Literature
- Introduction to Part III
- 7 Narratives of the Fake: The Collected Object, Personal Histories and Constructed Memory
- 8 Probability and Persuasion in 18th -Century and 19th-Century Historical Writing
- 9 Fiction or Non-fiction? Ottoman Accounts of the Siege of Nagykanizsa
- IV Literature as History
- Introduction to Part IV
- 10 History as a Crazy House: Norman Mailer, Hayden White, and the Representation of the Modernist Event
- 11 Monumental Time in Caribbean Literature
- 12 Divergence and Confluence: Mapping the Streams of Hiroshima
- Notes on Contributors.