The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

ISBN-13: 9780801841156 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 264 str.

Hayden White

Opis

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.