Hayden White
Born
in Martin, Tennessee, The United States
January 01, 1928
Died
March 05, 2018
Genre
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
20 editions
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1973
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The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
9 editions
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1987
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Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism
14 editions
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1978
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The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957–2007
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4 editions
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2010
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The Historical Text as a Literary Artifact
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The Practical Past
6 editions
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2014
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Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect
4 editions
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1998
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Ficción histórica, historia ficcional y realidad histórica
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Proza Historyczna
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The Uses of History
2 editions
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1968
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“The closest that either Voltaire or the other historical geniuses of the age -- Hume and Gibbon -- came to understanding unreason's creative potentialities was in their Ironic criticism of themselves and in their own efforts to make sense out of history. This, at least, led them to view themselves as being as potentially flawed as the cripples they conceived to be acting out the spectacle of history.”
― Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
― Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
“In order to qualify as historical, an event must be susceptible to at least two narrations of its occurrence. Unless at least two versions of the same set of events can be imagined, there is no reason for the historian to take upon himself the authority of giving the true account of what really happened. The authority of the historical narrative is the authority of reality itself; the historical account endows the reality with form and thereby makes it desirable by the imposition upon its processes of the formal coherency that only stories possess.”
― The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
― The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
“This movement between alternative linguistic modes conceived as alternative descriptive protocols is, I would argue, a distinguishing feature of all the great classics of the 'literature of fact.”
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