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The fiction of narrative : essays on history, literature, and theory, 1957-2007
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The fiction of narrative : essays on history, literature, and theory, 1957-2007

Hayden V. White

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Collingwood and Toynbee: transitions in English historical thought
Religion, culture, and western civilization in Christopher Dawson's Idea of history
The abiding relevance of Croce's Idea of history
Romanticism, historicism, and realism: toward a period concept for early nineteenth-century intellectual history
The tasks of intellectual history
The culture of criticism: Gombrich, Auerbach, Popper
The structure of historical narrative
What is a historical system?
The politics of contemporary philosophy of history
The problem of change in literary history
The problem of style in realistic representation: Marx and Flaubert
The discourse of history
Vico and structuralist/poststructuralist thought
The interpretation of texts
Historical pluralism and pantextualism
The "nineteenth century" as chronotope
Ideology and counterideology in Northrop Frye's Anatomy of criticism
Writing in the middle voice
Northrop Frye's place in contemporary cultural studies
Storytelling: historical and ideological
The suppression of rhetoric in the nineteenth century
Postmodernism and textual anxieties
Guilty of history? the longue durée of Paul Ricoeur.

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The fiction of narrative : essays on history, literature, and theory, 1957-2007 by Hayden V. White. ISBN 9780801894800. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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