Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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JHU Press, 1975 - 448 pagine
In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an appropriate historical explanation should be.
 

Sommario

THE ENLIGHTENMENT
43
The Poetics of History and
81
PART TWO FOUR KINDS OF REALISM IN NINETEENTHCENTURY
133
PART THREE THE REPUDIATION OF REALISM IN LATE NINETEENTH
265
The Philosophical Defense of History in the Metonymical Mode
281
The Poetic Defense of History in the Metaphorical Mode
331
The Philosophical Defense of History in the Ironic Mode
375
CONCLUSION
426
BIBLIOGRAPHY
435
INDEX
443
Copyright

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Informazioni sull'autore (1975)

Hayden V. White was born in Martin, Tennessee on July 12, 1928. He enlisted in the Navy near the end of World War II. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Wayne State University in 1951 and a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1952. After spending two years in Rome on a Fulbright fellowship researching church reform in the Middle Ages, he received a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1956. He taught at several universities including Wayne State University, the University of Rochester, Wesleyan University, Stanford University, and several campuses of the University of California system. He wrote several books including Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, The Practical Past, and The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature and Theory 1957-2007. He died on March 5, 2018 at the age of 89.

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