Author: White, Hayden V.
Title: The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1987. orig. cloth. 24x15cm, xiii,244 pp. Light binding corner bumps.. Some rubbing. One sentence pencil-underlined on page 12. VG. ¶ Contents: The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality; The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory; The Politics of Historical Interpretation: Discipline and De-Sublimation; Droysen's " Historik": Historical Writing as a Bourgeois Science; Foucault's Discourse:The Historiography of Anti-Humanism; Getting Out of History: Jameson's Redemption of Narrative; The Metaphysics of Narrativity: time and Symbol in Ricoeur's Philosophy of History; The Context in the Text: Method and Ideology in Intellectual History. Bibliography: p. 215-236. Includes index.

Keywords: Philosophy of History, Historiography, Narrative Discourse, Critical Theory, Literary Criticism, , , ,