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Format	Paperback / softback
Published	August 1, 1990
ISBN-13	9780801841156
Language	English
Pages	264
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.85 Pounds (US)
Unit weight	.85 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$29.00 USD, £21.50 GBP
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Format	Electronic book text
Published	December 8, 2009
ISBN-13	9780801896149
Language	English
Pages	264
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
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The Content of the Form

Name: The Content of the Form
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Author: Hayden White
ISBN: 9780801841156

Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

By Hayden White

The Johns Hopkins University Press

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.

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.

Reviews

"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

"This oeuvre will continue to force us to pay close, careful, rigorous attention to the syntheses he offers, so that anyone who 'reads'—whether fiction, history, biography, autobiography, whatever—needs to have examined the writings of Hayden White."—Style

"[White] has clearly made significant advances in laying a foundation for a better understanding of the intricate interaction between narrative representation and what it purports to represent in both history and literature."—American Historical Review

Publisher	The Johns Hopkins University Press
BISAC Subject Headings	LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory (394 Titles)
BIC Subject Headings	Literary theory (385 Titles)

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	August 1, 1990
ISBN-13	9780801841156
Language	English
Pages	264
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.85 Pounds (US)
Unit weight	.85 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$29.00 USD, £21.50 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Format	Electronic book text
Published	December 8, 2009
ISBN-13	9780801896149
Language	English
Pages	264
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
List Prices	$29.00 USD, £21.50 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference