Format:
1 online resource (176 pages)
ISBN:
9789401200066
Series Statement:
Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 96 v.v. 96
Content:
In the last decades, there has been an intense debate on the relationship between literature and historiography, often linked to the debate between "empiricists" and "postmodernists". The aim of this collective work is to address this debate, and to search for new ways of thinking and encountering the past.The key note for the book comes from Hayden White, one of the leading academic figures, whose role in launching the contemporary history/literature debate has been crucial. It is followed by three critical readings of his work, all suggesting new ways to apply or challenge his views. In other chapters of the book, history / literature question is then addressed from three points of view: narrativity, history as literature, and literature as history. Tropes for the Past is an ideal introduction to the literature/historiography debate and Hayden White's role in it. It will be of use for all students and scholars in the philosophy of history and in historically oriented literary, cultural, and social studies.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction: The History/Literature Debate -- I Hayden White and Textuality of History -- Introduction to Part I -- 1: Historical Discourse and Literary Writing -- 2: An Ironic Battle against Irony: Epistemological and Ideological Irony in Hayden White's Philosophy of History, 1955-1973 -- 3: History and Textuality: Film and the Modernist Event -- 4: The Confines of the Form: Historical Writing and the Desire that It Be what It Is Not -- II Narrativity -- Introduction to Part II -- 5: Narrativization of the World -- 6: Life as Sequence and Narrative: Hayden White Meets Paul Auster -- III History as Literature -- Introduction to Part III -- 7: Narratives of the Fake: The Collected Object, Personal Histories and Constructed Memory -- 8: Probability and Persuasion in 18[sup(th)]-Century and 19[sup(th)]-Century Historical Writing -- 9: Fiction or Non-fiction? Ottoman Accounts of the Siege of Nagykanizsa -- IV Literature as History -- Introduction to Part IV -- 10: History as a Crazy House: Norman Mailer, Hayden White, and the Representation of the Modernist Event -- 11: Monumental Time in Caribbean Literature -- 12: Divergence and Confluence: Mapping the Streams of Hiroshima -- Notes on Contributors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042017184
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789042017184
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=556379
