The Ethics of Narrative
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The Ethics of Narrative

Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Ethics of Narrative

Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017

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of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures.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 Friedländer, and Krzysztof Pomian.

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Editor’s Note
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Editor’s Introduction
  5. 1. The Future of Utopia in History
  6. 2. Reflections on “Gendre” in the Discourses of History
  7. 3. Postmodernism and Historiography
  8. 4. Anomalies of the Canon in Modernity
  9. 5. Modern Politics and the Historical Imaginary
  10. 6. Historical Fictions: Frank Kermode’s Idea of History in The Sense of an Ending
  11. 7. The Substance of the Sixties
  12. 8. The History-Fiction Divide in Holocaust Studies
  13. 9. The Limits of Enlightenment: Enlightenment as Metaphor and Concept
  14. 10. Outcasts, Monsters, and Simulacra of History
  15. 11. Modernism and the Sense of History
  16. 12. Historical Truth, Estrangement, and Disbelief: On Saul Friedländer’s Nazi Germany and the Jews
  17. 13. At the Limits of the Concept
  18. 14. Krzysztof Pomian’s Modernist Theory of Culture
  19. 15. Constructionism in Historical Writing
  20. 16. Primitivism and Modernism
  21. 17. Is My Life a Story?
  22. Index