Content of the Form - Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

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.

About the author

Hayden White is professor of the history of consciousness and Presidential Professor of Historical Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, both available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hayden White, Hayden V. White
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2015
• EAN: 9780801841156
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4115-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Linguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography