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The Content of the Form

Paperback • 1990 • English

The Content of the Form

By Hayden V. White

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About the book

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 transform the present into a fulfillment of a pas...Show more

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ISBN

9780801841156

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published year

1990

Language

English

Original title

The Content of the Form

Format

Paperback

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