The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

by Hayden White

Book Overview

Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning--its production, distribution, and consumption--in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in the content of the form, in the way our narrative capacities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801841151
• ISBN13: 9780801841156
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"