- Summary
- "In Figural Realism, White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. "'History' is not only an object we can study," White observes, "it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediated by a distinctive kind of written discourse. It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography.""--BOOK JACKET.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- White, Hayden V., 1928-2018.
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1999]
©1999
- Contents
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Literary theory and historical writing
Historical emplotment and the problem of truth in historical representation
Formalist and contextualist strategies in historical explanation
The modernist event
Auerbach's literary history: Figural causation and modernist historicism
Freud's tropology of dreaming
Narrative, description,and tropology in Proust
Form, reference, and ideology in musical discourse.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-199) and index.
Literary theory and historical writing -- Historical emplotment and the problem of truth in historical representation -- Formalist and contextualist strategies in historical explanation -- The modernist event -- Auerbach's literary history: Figural causation and modernist historicism -- Freud's tropology of dreaming -- Narrative, description,and tropology in Proust -- Form, reference, and ideology in musical discourse.
