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  • The Content of the Form – Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

    The Content of the Form – Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by White, Hayden;

    Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
    • Date of Publication 1 August 1990

    • ISBN 9780801841156
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages264 pages
    • Size 228x155x17 mm
    • Weight 382 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    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.

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    Long description:

    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.



    The publication of The Content of the Form . . . is an important event. It shows that for a long period White has been unremittingly concerned with a revaluation of the concept of narrative in the contemporary context, and that the various different intellectual stimuli which he has received have all helped to focus his intense study of the subject.
    London Review of Books

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