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The Ethics of Narrative
Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007â2017
Hayden White, Robert Doran
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The Ethics of Narrative
Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007â2017
Hayden White, Robert Doran
About This Book
The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the first volume, volume 2 features White's trenchant articulations of his influential theories, as well as his explorations of a wide range of ideas and authors at the frontiers of critical theory, literature, and historical studies. These include the concept of utopia in history, modernism and postmodernism, constructivism, the conceptualization of historical periods such as "the Sixties" and "the Enlightenment, " the representation of the Holocaust in scholarly and literary writing, as well as essays on Frank Kermode, Saul FriedlÀnder, and Krzysztof Pomian.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Editorâs Note
- Acknowledgments
- Editorâs Introduction
- 1. The Future of Utopia in History
- 2. Reflections on âGendreâ in the Discourses of History
- 3. Postmodernism and Historiography
- 4. Anomalies of the Canon in Modernity
- 5. Modern Politics and the Historical Imaginary
- 6. Historical Fictions: Frank Kermodeâs Idea of History in The Sense of an Ending
- 7. The Substance of the Sixties
- 8. The History-Fiction Divide in Holocaust Studies
- 9. The Limits of Enlightenment: Enlightenment as Metaphor and Concept
- 10. Outcasts, Monsters, and Simulacra of History
- 11. Modernism and the Sense of History
- 12. Historical Truth, Estrangement, and Disbelief: On Saul FriedlĂ€nderâs Nazi Germany and the Jews
- 13. At the Limits of the Concept
- 14. Krzysztof Pomianâs Modernist Theory of Culture
- 15. Constructionism in Historical Writing
- 16. Primitivism and Modernism
- 17. Is My Life a Story?
- Index