Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.
Hayden V. White Libri
12 luglio 1928 – 5 marzo 2018
Hayden White, uno storico che operava nella tradizione della critica letteraria, è rinomato per la sua opera fondamentale sull'immaginazione storica. Ha analizzato meticolosamente le narrazioni di storici e filosofi del XIX e XX secolo, proponendo che il discorso storico sia una forma di finzione classificabile in base alla sua struttura e all'uso linguistico. White ha sfidato la nozione di resoconti storici oggettivi, sostenendo che gli storici impiegano presupposti non articolati nella selezione e interpretazione degli eventi. Il suo lavoro ha alterato fondamentalmente la teoria della storia applicando tropi retorici al discorso narrativo, rivelando una comprensione più profonda degli atteggiamenti dell'autore e dei contesti storici.
Metahistory
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an appropriate historical explanation should be.
"[White] has clearly made significant advances in laying a foundation for a better understanding of the intricate interaction between narrative representation and what it purports to represent in both history and literature."--American Historical Review.
Figural Realism
- 222pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography.
The Ethics of Narrative
- 306pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the first volume, volume two features White's trenchant articulations of his influential theories, as well as his explorations of a wide range of ideas and authors at the frontiers of critical theory, literature, and historical studies. These include the concept of utopia in history, modernism and postmodernism, constructivism, the conceptualization of historical periods such as "the Sixties" and "the Enlightenment," the representation of the Holocaust in scholarly and literary writing, as well as essays on Frank Kermode, Saul Friedländer, and Krzysztof Pomian.