The content of the form : narrative discourse and historical representation /

The content of the form : narrative discourse and historical representation /

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Author / Creator:	White, Hayden V., 1928-2018.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Imprint:	Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, [1987]
Subjects:	Historiography. History > Philosophy.
Retention:	Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials

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Summary:	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 transform the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended.
Item Description:	Includes index.
Physical Description:	xiii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Bibliography: pages 215-236.
ISBN:	0801829372
Author Notes:	Hayden V. White was born in Martin, Tennessee on July 12, 1928. He enlisted in the Navy near the end of World War II. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Wayne State University in 1951 and a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1952. After spending two years in Rome on a Fulbright fellowship researching church reform in the Middle Ages, he received a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1956. He taught at several universities including Wayne State University, the University of Rochester, Wesleyan University, Stanford University, and several campuses of the University of California system. He wrote several books including Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, The Practical Past, and The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature and Theory 1957-2007. He died on March 5, 2018 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography)