16%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957–2007
Hayden White
€ 38.99
€ 32.85
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957–2007
Paperback. The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies. Editor(s): Doran, Robert. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600.
Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where narrative is of primary concern, including history, literary studies, anthropology, philosophy, art history, and film and media studies. This volume, deftly introduced by Robert Doran, gathers in one place White's important-and often hard-to-find-essays exploring his revolutionary theories of historical writing and narrative. These texts find White at his most essayistic, engaging a wide range of topics and thinkers with characteristic insight and elegance. The Fiction of Narrative ... Read more
Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where narrative is of primary concern, including history, literary studies, anthropology, philosophy, art history, and film and media studies. This volume, deftly introduced by Robert Doran, gathers in one place White's important-and often hard-to-find-essays exploring his revolutionary theories of historical writing and narrative. These texts find White at his most essayistic, engaging a wide range of topics and thinkers with characteristic insight and elegance. The Fiction of Narrative ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801894800
SKU
V9780801894800
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-24
About Hayden White
Hayden White is a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, and Figural ... Read more
Reviews for The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957–2007
The book will interest scholars from an array of disciplines... Recommended. Choice