Tropes for the past : Hayden White and the history/literature debate / edited by Kuisma Korhonen.

Most papers are based on a conference called "Literature and its Others," held at University of Turku, Finland, 8-10 May 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

Historical discourse and literary writing / Hayden White -- An ironic battle against irony: epistemological and ideological irony in Hayden White's philosophy of history, 1955-1973 / Herman Paul -- History and textuality: film and the modernist event / Stanley Corkin and Phyllis Frus -- The confines of the form: historical writing and the desire that it be what it is not / Kalle Pihlainen -- Narrativization of the world / Karlheinz Stierle -- Life as a sequence and narrative: Hayden White meets Paul Auster / Matti Hyvärinen.

Narratives of the fake: the collected object, personal histories and constructed memory / Andrew Burrell -- Probability and persuasion in 18th-century and 19th-century historical writing / Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian -- Fiction or non-fiction? Ottoman accounts of the Siege of Nagykanizsa / Claire Norton -- History as a crazy house: Norman Mailer, Hayden White, and the representation of the modernist event / Markuu Lehtimäki -- Monumental time in Caribbean literature / Olabode Ibironke -- Divergence and confluence: mapping the streams of Hiroshima / Lara Okihiro.