Tropes for the Past : : Hayden White and the History / Literature Debate / / edited by Kuisma Korhonen.
In the last decades, there has been an intense debate on the relationship between literature and historiography, often linked to the debate between "empiricists" and "postmodernists". The aim of this collective work is to address this debate, and to search for new ways of thinkin...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 96 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Notes: | Most papers are based on a conference called "Literature and its Others," held at University of Turku, Finland, 8-10 May 2003. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Kuisma KORHONEN: General Introduction: The History/Literature Debate
- I Hayden White and Textuality of History
- Introduction to Part I
- Hayden WHITE: Historical Discourse and Literary Writing
- Herman PAUL: An Ironic Battle against Irony: Epistemological and Ideological Irony in Hayden White's Philosophy of History,1955-1973
- Stanley CORKIN and Phyllis FRUS: History and Textuality: Film and the Modernist Event
- Kalle PIHLAINEN: The Confines of the Form: Historical Writing and the Desire that It Be what It Is Not
- II Narrativity
- Introduction to Part II
- Karl-Heinz STIERLE: Narrativization of the World
- Matti HYVÄRINEN: Life as Sequence and Narrative: Hayden White Meets Paul Auster
- III History as Literature
- Introduction to Part III
- Andrew BURRELL: Narratives of the Fake: The Collected Object, Personal Histories and Constructed Memory
- Fiona MCINTOSH-VARJABÉDIAN: Probability and Persuasion in 18th-Century and 19th-Century Historical Writing
- Claire NORTON : Fiction or Non-fiction? Ottoman Accounts of the Siege of Nagykanizsa
- IV Literature as History
- Introduction to Part IV
- Markku LEHTIMÄKI: History as a Crazy House: Norman Mailer, Hayden White, and the Representation of the Modernist Event
- Olabode IBIRONKE: Monumental Time in Caribbean Literature
- Lara OKIHIRO: Divergence and Confluence: Mapping the Streams of Hiroshima
- Notes on Contributors.