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The ethics of narrative. volume 1 : essays on history, literature, and theory, 1998-2007 /

"The first in a two-volume anthology of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing White as a public intellectual. It places White's thought in context, explaining its major themes, sources, and frames of reference, and features five previously...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Hayden V., 1928-2018 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Doran, Robert, 1968- (Editor ), Butler, Judith, 1956- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • V.1. The problem with modern patriotism
  • Symbols and allegories of temporality
  • The discourse of Europe and the search for European identity
  • Catastrophe, communal memory, and mythic discourse: the uses of myth in the reconstruction of society
  • Figura and historical subalternation
  • The westernization of world history
  • Anomalies of the historical museum or, history as utopian space
  • On transcommunality and models of community
  • Figural realism in witness literature: on Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo
  • The elements of totalitarianism: on Hannah Arendt
  • The metaphysics of western historiography: cosmos, chaos, and sequence in historiological representation
  • Historicality as a trope of political discourse: rhetoric, ethics, politics
  • Exile and abjection
  • The dark side of art history: on melancholy
  • Against historical realism: a reading of Leo Tolstoy's War and peace