Figural realism : studies in the mimesis effect / Hayden White
By: White, Hayden V.
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TextPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1999]Copyright date: ℗♭1999Description: xii, 205 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 0801859972; 9780801859977; 0801865247; 9780801865244.Subject(s): Criticism | History in literature | Mimesis in literature | Literature and history | HistoriographyDDC classification: 801/.95 Review: "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.""--Jacket
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"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.""--Jacket
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