{"product_id":"figural-realism-studies-in-the-mimesis-effect-9781421437309","title":"Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1998. In his earlier books such as \u003ci\u003eTropics of Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Content of the Form\u003c\/i\u003e, Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In \u003ci\u003eFigural Realism\u003c\/i\u003e, White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. \"'History' is not only an object we can study,\" writes White, \"it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediated by a distinctive kind of written discourse. It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography.\"\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\u003eis professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include \u003ci\u003eMetahistory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTropics of Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Content of the Form\u003c\/i\u003e, all available from Johns Hopkins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50370473656594,"sku":"9781421437309","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7af15959-e75c-449e-9a37-daa8c9435def.jpg?v=1728532698","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/figural-realism-studies-in-the-mimesis-effect-9781421437309","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}