The Fiction Of Narrative Av Hayden White

<p>Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, <i>Metahistory</i>, 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.</p><p>This 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. </p><p><i>The Fiction of Narrative</i> 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.</p>