The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
by:
Hayden White (author)
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...
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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 transforms the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have desceneded.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801841156 (0801841151)
Publish date: August 1st 1990
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
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