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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 907.2
EAN: 9780801827419
ISBN: 0801827418
Label: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 287
Publication Date: March 01, 1986
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Sales Rank: 511600
Studio: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism.
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I highly recommend this text for those who are interested historiography and literary theory. While researching propaganda and other forms of "historical" rhetoric, I found these essays to be enlightening, particular "Interpretation in History." Though this book is intended for those in history and literary studies, much of the book has a theoretical basis in rhetorical theory. Those familar with Kenneth Burke will see this some of White's ideas as an expansion upon many of Burke's conceptions of ... Read More
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This collection of essays, all of which originally appeared in the late 1960s and 70s, is essential reading for every would-be historian or even amateur history buff. White unpacks interpretation and meaning in history, arguing that literary or psychic tropes govern the discourse of history just as clearly as they are manifest in the other arts and sciences; and that history that lacks self-consciousness of the constitutive forces of its own discourse can rightly be criticized as inherently meaningless, ... Read More
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White's text is a classic in its field, considering the ways history has always been, above all, literature. This collection includes an early essay on Foucault and poststructuralism. Any serious historian must read this text.
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