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.
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.
This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study.
The second volume completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two... Læs mere