{"product_id":"fiction-of-narrative-essays-on-history-literature-and-theory-1957-2007-9780801894800","title":"Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007","description":"\u003cp\u003eHayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, \u003ci\u003eMetahistory\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where narrative is of primary concern, including history, literary studies, anthropology, philosophy, art history, and film and media studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume, deftly introduced by Robert Doran, gathers in one place White's important--and often hard-to-find--essays exploring his revolutionary theories of historical writing and narrative. These texts find White at his most essayistic, engaging a wide range of topics and thinkers with characteristic insight and elegance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Fiction of Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHayden White\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include \u003ci\u003eMetahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFigural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Johns Hopkins.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Doran\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Rochester and editor of a collection of essays by René Girard, \u003ci\u003eMimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328348524818,"sku":"9780801894800","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4fb198bd-96a9-4fa1-817f-049d9413183b.jpg?v=1727736431","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fiction-of-narrative-essays-on-history-literature-and-theory-1957-2007-9780801894800","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}