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Ankersmit, F. R. Narrative Logic: A Semantic Analysis of the Historian's Language. The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1983.
Ankersmit, F. R., "The Dilemma of Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Philosophy of History." History and Theory 25:4 (1986), 1-27.
Reprinted in History and Tropology.
Ankersmit, F. R., Review of Grundzuge einer Historik, vol. 2: Rekonstruktion der Vergangehiet, by Jorn Rusen. History and Theory 27:1 (1988), 81-94.
Ankersmit, F. R., "Historical Representation." History and Theory 27:3 (1988), 205-228.
Reprinted in History and Tropology.
Ankersmit, F. R., "The Use of Language in the Writing of history." In Working with Language: A Multidisciplinary Consideration of Language Use in Work Contexts. H. Coleman, Ed. Berlin, 1989.
Reprinted in History and Tropology.
Ankersmit, F. R., "The Reality Effect in the Writing of History: The Dynamics of Historiographical Topology." Mededelinger van de Afdeling Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel 52, no. 1. Amsterdam, 1989.
Reprinted in History and Tropology.
Ankersmit, F. R., "Historiography and Postmodernism." History and Theory 28:2 (1989), 137-153.
Reprinted in History and Tropology.
Ankersmit, F. R., Review of Derrida, by Christopher Norris. Clio 19 (Fall 1989), 63-72.
Ankersmit, F. R., "Reply to Professor Zagorin." History and Theory 29 (1990), 275-296.
Ankersmit, F. R., Review of Between History and Literature, by Lionel Gossman. Clio 21 (Winter 1992), 173-185.
Ankersmit, F. R. History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of Metaphor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
"'The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy' is 'to reckon with twentieth-century history,' claimed R. G. Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, prominent Dutch philosopher of history F. R. Ankersmit not only demonstrates the prescience of that remark but goes a long way toward meeting its challenge. According to Ankersmit, the revolutionary changes in historiography that have occurred in the past twenty years--which are associated with the challenges of postmodernism and writing the history of 'mentalites'--have never been fully explored by historical theorists.
"In History and Tropology, Ankersmit maps this terrain, offering a lucid and comprehensive analysis of the cultural and philosophical significance of contemporary historical writing. Responding to the work of Hayden White, Arthur Danto, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, while not strictly adhering to any school of thought, Ankersmit examines such issues as the difference between historical representation and artistic expression, the status of metaphor in historical description, the logic of explanation, and the relation of postmodernism and historicism." From the dust jacket.
Contents: Introduction: Transcendentalism and the Rise and Fall of Metaphor. 1. Six Theses on Narrativist Philosophy of History. 2. The Dilemma of Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Philosophy of History. 3. The Use of Language in the Writing of History. 4. Historical Representation. 5. The Reality Effect in the Writing of History: The Dynamics of Historiographical Topology. 6. Historiography and Postmodernism. 7. Historism and Postmodernism: A Phenomenology of Historical Experience.
Ankersmit, F. R., "The Origins of Postmodernist Historiography" in Historiography Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Contributions to the Methodology of Historical Research Jerzy Topolski, Ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.
Ankersmit, F. R., "Historicism: An Attempt at Synthesis." History and Theory 34:3 (1995), 143-173.
Ankersmit, F. R., "Can We Experience the Past?" in History-Making: The Intellectual and Social Formation of a Discipline Rolf Torstendahl and Irmline Veit-Brause, Eds. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksel, 1996.
Ankersmit, F. R., "Between Language and History: Rorty's Promised Land." Common Knowledge 6:1 (Spring 1997),
Ankersmit, F. R., "Hayden White's Appeal to the Historians." History and Theory 37:2 (May 1998), 182-193.
"Abstract: Historians rarely agree with Hayden White's account of their discipline. To a certain extent their dissatisfaction can be explained by the fact that historians customarily distrust historical theory and always tend to look at the historical theorist with the greatest suspicion. But historians find an extra argument for their dislike of White's ideas in his alledged cavalier disregard of how historical facts limit what the historian might wish to say about the past. And, admittedly, this criticism is not wholly unfounded.
"Nevertheless, this essay attempts to show how misguided this traditional criticism of White actually is. For it is historians who too easily take the truth of their accounts of the past for granted, whereas White's theoretical writings can be shown to express a full awareness of the kind of problem encountered in the effort to tell the truth about historical relaity. Hence, White's writings--rather than those by historians criticizing White--testify to the respect that we owe to historical reality itself.
"That this is how we should read White becomes clear if we consider his intellectual evolution as a whole rather than the individual books or essays that he wrote."
Ankersmit, Frank and Hans Kellner, Eds. A New Philosophy of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
"What is history? From Thucydides to Toynbee historians and non-historians alike have wondered how to answer the question. A New Philosophy of History reflects on developments over the last two decades in historical writing, not least of which is the renewed interest in the status of narrative itself and the presence of the authorial voice. With essays from prominent philosophers, intellectual and social historians, and literary critics, A New Philosophy of History investigates the philosophical, cultural, linguistic, and aesthetic matrices in which historical insight is generated. Examining history as discourse, this book covers such topics as the narrative theory of history, the question of voice and the personal presence of the historian in the text, and the relevance of nonliterary models such as museums and paintings to conceptions of historical discourse." From the back cover.
Includes: Hans Kellner, "Introduction: Describing Redescriptions"; Nancy F. Partner, "Historicity in an Age of Reality-Fiction"; Richard T. Vann, "Turning Linguistic: History and Theory and History and Theory, 1960-1975"; Arthur C. Danto, "The Decline and Fall of the Analytical Philosophy of History"; Linda Orr, "Intimate Images: Subjectivity and History -- Stael, Michelet and Tocqueville"; Philippe Carrard, "Theory of a Practice: Historical Enunciation and the Annales School"; Ann Rigney, "Relevance, Revision and the Fear of Long Books"; Allan Megill, "'Grand Narrative' and the Discipline of History"; Robert F. Berkhofer, "A Point of View on Viewpoints in Historical Practice"; Stephen Bann, "History as Competence and Performance: Notes on the Ironic Museum"; Frank Ankersmit, "Statements, Texts and Pictures"; Frank Ankersmit, "Bibliographical Essay."
Bann, Stephen. The Clothing of Clio: A Study of the Representation of History in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France. Cambridge, 1984.
Bann, Stephen, "Analysing the Discourse of History." Dalhousie Review 64:2 (Summer 1984), 376-400.
Also published in Renaissance and Modern Studies 27 (1983), 61-84?
Bann, Stephen. Inventions of History: Essays on the Representation of the Past. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1990
See also: review by Peter Burke.
Bann, Stephen. Romanticism and the Rise of History. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. Twayne's Studies in Intellectual and Cultural History.
"'Historical consciousness is the product of the Romantic period, when the whole range of our contemporary concerns with the past first became accessible to representation.' writes Stephen Bann in Romanticism and the Rise of History. It is when for 'the first time historical data became meaningful not only to a small band of passionately committed "antiquarians" but to a mass reading public.' In this elegantly argued study, a kind of history of history as the Western world knows it today, Bann elucidates the fascinating process by which a conscious effort to both represent and engage in discourse with the past evolved."From the back cover.
Contents: Part 1: The Context of Historical-Mindedness. 1. Romanticism andthe Desire for History. 2. Understanding the Past. 3. Historians on History and Fiction. Part 2: History as Representation. 4. The Contemporary Analysis of History and Its Antecedents. 5. Metamorphoses of Joan of Arc. 6. The Splitting of Historical Consciousness. Part 3: History as Discourse. 7. Taking a Subjective Stance. 8. Staging the Past. 9. Living the Past. Conclusion.
Barthes, Roland. Michelet. Translated by Richard Howard. 1954; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
"For students interested in historiography, Michelet is one of the earliest truly successful literary readings of an historical text ... For all of us who are interested in this field it is a classic." Lionel Gossman, From the back cover.
Barthes, Roland, "The Discourse of History." Translated with an introduction by Stephen Bann. In Comparative Criticism: A Yearbook. Vol. 3. E. S. Shaffer, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
"... it forms part of a coherent programme of introducing the concepts of semiology and linguistics into the analysis of any and every type of discourse, from Herodotus to the fashion magazine. Broadly speaking, Barthes is applying the concepts of structural linguistics (in particular, those developed by Jakobson and Benveniste) to the particular conditions of 'utterance' which characterize the historical narrative." From the introduction by Stephen Bann.
Beer, Jeanette, Review of Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France., by Gabrielle M. Spiegel. American Historical Review 102:4 (October 1997), 1143-1144.
Bender, Thomas, Review of History as Rhetoric, by Ronald H. Carpenter American Historical Review 102:1 (February 1997), 94.
Berkhofer, Jr., Robert F., "The Challenge of Poetics to (Normal) Historical Practice." Poetics Today 9:2 (1988), 435-452.
Berkhofer, Jr., Robert F. Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
"What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theories? That is the question considered in this long-awaited and pathbreaking book, Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., addresses the essential practical concern of contemporary historians; he offers a way actually to go about reading and writing histories in light of the many contesting theories.
"Berkhofer ranges through a vast archive of recent writings by a broad range of authors. He explicates the opposing paradigms and their corresponding dilemmas by presenting in dialogue form the positions of modernists and postmodernists, formalists and deconstructionists, textualists and contextualists. Poststructuralism, the New Historicism, the New Anthropoligy, the New Philosophy of History--these and many other approaches are illuminated in new ways in these comprehensive, interdisciplinary explorations.
"From them, Berkhofer arrives at a clear vision of the forms historical discourse might take, advocates a new approach to historical criticism, and proposes new forms of historical representation that encompass multiculturalism, poetics, and reflexive (con)textualization. He elegantly blends traditional and new methodology; assesses what the 'revival of the narrative' actually entails; considers the politics of disciplinary frameworks; and derives coherent new approaches to writing, teaching, reviewing, and reading histories." from the dust jacket
"Contents: 1. The Postmodern Challenge. 2. Narratives and Historicization. 3. Historical Representation and Truthfulness. 4. The New Rhetoric, Poetics, and Criticism. 5. Emplotment: Historicizing Time. 6. Partiality as Voice and Viewpoint. 7. Representing Multiple Viewpoints and Voices. 8. Politics and Paradigms. 9. Reflexive (Con)Textualization.
Boucher, David, "Conversation and Political Thought." New Literary History 18:1 (Autumn 1986), 59-75.
Burke, Peter, Review of The Inventions of History: Essays on the Representation of the Past, by Stephen Bann. History of the Human Sciences 4:3 (October 1991), 435-437.
Burke, Peter, "History of Events and the Revival of Narrative." In New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Peter Burke, Ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Park, 1992. pp. 233-248.
Canary, Robert H., and Henry Kozicki, Eds. The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Carpenter, Ronald H. History as Rhetoric: Style, Narrative, and Persuasion. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1995. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication.
Carrard, Phillippe. Poetics of the New History: French Historical Discourse from Braudel to Chartier. Baltimore and London: 1992. Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society.
"Exploring the works of Braudel, Duby, Aries, Le Roy Ladurie, and many others, Philippe Carrard asks whether the new problems, approaches, and objects that are supposedly specific to the Annales school may be connected to new strategies of writing. Whereas most studies of historiography focus on plot structures exclusively, Poetics of the New History is also concerned with the minutiae of writing. The study contributes to the emerging rhetoric of inquiry, and it confirms that writing matters not only in literature but also in scholarly research." From the back cover.
Carrard, Philippe, "Voice Trouble: The Search for Women's Words in French Historiography." Clio 27:1 (Fall 1997), 1-28.
Carrier, David, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. British Journal of Aesthetics 28 (Winter 1988), 84-85.
Carroll, Noel, "Interpretation, History and Narrative." The Monist 73 (April 1990), 134-166.
Cayton, Mary Kupiec, Review of The Writing of History, by Michel de Certeau. Church History 62 (September 1993), 454-455.
Cebik, L. B., Review of Narrative Logic, by F. R. Ankersmit. Clio 14 (Spring 1985), 338-341.
Certeau, Michel de. The Writing of History Translated by Tom Conley. 1975; New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
"Michel de Certeau (1926-1986) combined principles from the disciplines of religion, history, and psychoanalysis in order to redefine historiography and rethink categories of history. The Writing of History--one of his major works--analyses the origins of Western history from Europe's first encounter with America to the West's desire to have the past function as a model meditating and explaning the present, and our sense of the past as a reflection of death irreducible to the present.
"De Certeau first discusses our current system of historiography through a socioepistemological approach that evaluates the literature which has dominated the field throughout our century. He next examines the process by which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century practices of conduct, religion, and politics crisscross but inevitably lead to a gnosis in which the 'history of man' is victorious in the wake of the Enlightenment.
"Then, using a semiotic approach, de Certeau views the European discovery of America in terms of an encounter between a religious, oral culture (the sixteenth-century Western hemisphere) and an entrpereneurial, scriptural society of expansion (Europe). Finally, de Certeau determines how Freud's concept of history, as expressed in Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism, reflects and extends our obsessions with the past and with writing." From the dust jacket
Cohen, Sande, "Structuralism and the Writing of Intellectual History." History and Theory 17:2 (1978), 175-206.
Cohen, Sande. Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
"It is the first thorough semiological analysis of historical discourse, and it is the most original contribution to historiographical theory since Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative." Hayden White, From the back cover.
Cohen, Sande, "Between Image and Phrase: Progressive History and the 'Final Solution'." In Probing the Limits of Representation. Saul Friedlander, Ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Cohen, Sande, "Reading the Historians' Resistance to Reading: An Essay on Historiographic Schizophrenia." Clio 26:1 (Fall 1996), 1-28.
Cook, Albert. History/Writing: The Theory and Practice of History in Antiquity and in Modern Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
"History writing is a form of literature; it could be said that it began as such. But, in its very conception, it views what it designates from an especially sharp angle. It lays claim, both rhetorically and actually, to a validity of correspondence to the public processes of the real world. Thus the central reference of a historical work is the past about which it speaks, which is in some ways subverted as well as furthered by the mode of expression, historiography, that the writer has chosen.
"History/Writing addresses both the historian's attempts to give a true account and his or her unavoidable shaping of that account by rhetorical practices. It treats these two subjects simultaneously by taking a long look at the practices of leading historians, ancient and modern.
"If looked at for its strategy of expression, a work of history can be found to present puzzles about language. If looked at for its sequences, it presents puzzles about time. And if looked at for the connections among its events, it presents puzzles about causality. This book examines how such questions come together in the writings of early historians (such as Herodotus and Thucydides), classic Western historians (Gibbon and Michelet), philosophical historians (Hegel and Spengler), and historians writing in our time (Braudel, Namier)." From the dust jacket.
Coste, Didier. Narrative as Communication. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Theory and History of Literature, vol. 64.
"Narrative as Communication is the first major treatise on narrative and narrative theory to make use of all the analytic tools developed in the last twenty years. Intended as an up-to-date introduction, it carefully defines narrative discourse, distinguishing it from other discourses, and analyzes what it entails by referring to numerous examples spanning a wide range of media and literary works. At the same time, it orients narrative theory in the current debates surrounding the 'New Historicism' and post-modern ideology, showing that theories of narrative are necessarily central to any understanding of history.
"Not restricted to any single genre, Coste's text emphasizes the production of narrative meaning in diverse contexts: The Epic of Gilgamesh, a John Ford film classic, French, American and Spanish new fiction, Dante, Shakespeare, the pastoral, the fairy tale, The Communist manifesto, Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru, a painting by Gustave Moreau. Coste thoroughly and critically examines the usual concepts of voice, character, point of view and narrative syntax, and he develops radical revisions in the notion of fictionality, character, narrative economy and the function of narrative meaning itself. The book is a remarkable synthesis that will likely become a reference for future studies in narratology." from the back cover.
Crowell, Steven G., "Mixed Messages: the Heterogeneity of Historical Discourse." History and Theory 37:2 (May 1998), 220-
"Abstract: If, as many historians and theorists now believe, narrative is the form proper to historical explanation, this raises the problem of the terms in which such narrative are to be evaluated. Without a clear account of evaluation, the status of historical knowledge (both in itself and in all those social, political, and other contexts in which appeal to historical explanation is made) remains obscure. Beginning with the view, found in Hayden White and others, that historical narrative constitutes a meaning not reducible to the factual content it engages, this essay argues that such meaning can arise only through a synthesis of cognitive and normative discourses. Narrative combines 'heterogeneous' language games in such a way that neither appeal to 'truth content' or to 'justice' suffices to decide the question of which of two competing historical explanations is, as a whole, superior. Examining in critical detail the opposed positions on this issue articulated by the two recent theorists--Frank Ankersmit ("narrative idealism") and David Carr ("narrative realism")-- the paper concludes that the debate between those who hold that historical narratives should be judged in essentially cognitive terms and those who hold that they should be judged in essentially political terms cannot be resolved and that a philosophical view of historical narrative that is neither realist nor idealist needs to be developed."
Dahbour, Omar, Review of Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline, by Sande Cohen. Theory and Society 17 (1988), 597-610.
Daniel, Stephen H., "Metaphor and the Historiography of Philosophy" Clio 15 (1986), 191-210.
Dekema, Jan D., "Hermeneutics and the Discourse of History: A Response to Hayden White." Humanities in Society 2:1 (Winter 1979), 25-30.
Demaitre, Ann, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. Southern Humanities Review 23 (Fall 1989), 377-380.
Domanska, Ewa, "An Interview with Hayden White." Storia della Storiografia 24 (1993)
Domanska, Ewa, "Hayden White: Beyond Irony." History and Theory 37:2 (May 1998), 173-181.
"Abstract: A crisis of our age that is usually identified with the loss of the sacred was one of the causes of the fall into irony in the nineteenth century. In the case of historians, as Hayden White has shown in Metahistory, this irony was caused by a 'bitterness' stemming from the failure of reality to fulfill their expectations. An ironic apprehension of the world arose in an atmosphere of social breakdown or cultural decline. A current stage of irony manifests itself in a doubt as to the capacity of language to grasp reality. Thus we live in a 'prison house of language.' An intellectual parlor-game produces 'second-hand knowledge' that cannot satisfy the needs of post-postmodern men and women still looking for another netanarrative. Therefore, the main purpose of this essay is to answer the question how can we go beyond irony?
"This text is a 'post-postmodern post mortem to postmodernism.' I am grateful to post-modernism for many things, especially for giving me an alternative apprehension of the world in terms of difference and continuity rather than binary oppositions, but I am tired of ontological insecurity and epistemology chaos. I need order. I miss metanarrative.
"In trying to break with some modern/postmodern 'principles' and retain within my discourse the premodernist perspective, I follow the current trend in the humanities. We observe at present the breakdown of methodology and the rise of a more poetic approach of writing in anthropology and the rise of a more poetic approach in the human sciences. Evidence of this phenomenon is the more autobiographical form of writing in anthropology (James Clifford, Clifford Geertz) and a more literary style in historical writing (Natalie Zemon Davis, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Simon Schama). This trend is associated with a revaluation of the subjective aspects of research. Perhaps, and I would welcome it, it also could be identified with a reappearance of a Collingwoodian idea of history as human self-knowledge, knowledge about human nature, knowledge about 'what it is to be a man ... what it is to be the kind of man you are ... and what it is to be the man you are and nobody else is.'"
Ellis, Richard J., and Alun Munslow, "Narrative, Myth and the Turner Thesis." Journal of American Culture 9 (Summer 1986), 9-16.
Ermath, Elizabeth Deeds, "History Speaking." History and Theory 37:1 (February 1998), 102-110.
Review of Centuries' End, Narrative Means, by Robert Newman, Ed.
Flores, Ralph, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. MLN 102 (December 1987), 1191-1196.
Gill, Christopher, and T. P. Wiseman, Eds. Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World Austin, TX, 1993.
Gorman, J. L., Review of Writing History: Essay on Epistemology, by Paul Veyne. History and Theory 26:1 (1987), 99-114.
Gorman, J. L., Review ofLanguage and Historical Representation, by Hans Kellner. History and Theory 30:3 (1991), 356-368.
Gosslin, Edward A., Review of Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline, by Sande Cohen. History Teacher 22 (February 1989), 208.
Gossman, Lionel. Between History and Literature. Ithaca, 1976.
Gossman, Lionel, "Augustin Thierry and Liberal Historiograhy." History and Theory Beiheft 15 (1976).
Gossman, Lionel, "History and Literature: Reproduction or Signification?" In The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding Robert H. Canary and Henry Kozicki, Eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Gossman, Lionel, "History as Decipherment: Romantic Historiography and the Discovery of the Other." New Literary History 18:1 (Autumn 1986), 23-57.
Gossman, Lionel. Toward a Rational Historiography. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 79, no. 3. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1989.
Gunn, Giles, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. Yale Review 77 (Winter 1988), 207-236.
Hardy, Grant, "Can an Ancient Chinese Historian Contribute to Modern Western Theory? The Multiple Narratives of Ssu-ma Ch'ien." History and Theory 33:1 (1994), 20-38.
Haskell, Thomas, "Farewell to Fallibilism: Robert Berkhofer's Beyond the Great Story and the Allure of the Postmodern." History and Theory 37:3 (1998), 347-369.
Hollinger, David A., Review of Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline, by Sande Cohen. Pacific Historical Review 57 (August 1988), 344-345.
Holton, Robert, "Historical Narrative and the Politics of Point of View." In Jarring Witnesses (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994), pp. 3-35.
Iggers, Georg G., "Comments on F. R. Ankersmit's paper, 'Historicism: An Attempt at Synthesis.'" History and Theory 34:3 (1995), 162-173.
Jacoby, Russell, "A New Intellectual History?" American Historical Review 97 (April 1992), 405-424.
Includes references to the work of Hayden V. White and Dominick LaCapra.
Jameson, Frederic, "Figural Relativism, or the Poetics of Historiography." diacritics 1:1 (Spring 1976), 2-9.
Review of Hayden White's Metahistory.
Reprinted in Frederic Jameson, The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), pp. 153-165.
Jenkins, Keith, "The Discursive Turn: Tony Bennett and the Textuality of History."" Teaching History 66 (January 1992), 7-
Jenkins, Keith, "Marxism and Historical Knowledge: Tony Bennett and the Discursive Turn." Literature and History 3:1 (1994), 16-
Jenkins, Keith, "Beyond the Old Dichotomies: Some Reflections on Hayden White." Teaching History 74 (January 1994), 10-
Jenkins, Keith, "A Conversation with Hayden White." Literature and History 7:1 (1998), 68-
Kansteiner, Wulf, "Hayden White's Critique of the Writing of History." History and Theory 32:2 (1993), 273- 295.
Kansteiner, Wulf, "Searching for an Audience: The Historical Profession in the Media Age -- A Comment on Arthur Marwick and Hayden White." Journal of Contemporary History 31 (January 1996), 215-219.
Kellner, Hans, "White's Linguistic Humanism." History and Theory Beiheft 19 (1980), 1-29.
Kellner, Hans, "The Inflatable Trope as Narrative Theory: Structure or Allegory?" diacritics 11:1 (Spring 1981), 14-28.
Kellner, Hans, "The Issue in the Bulrushes: A Reply to Wallace Martin." diacritics 12:1 (Spring 1982), 84-88.
See Wallace Martin, "Floating an Issue of Tropes."
Kellner, Hans, Review of History, Rhetorical Description, and the Epic, by Page DuBois. MLN 98 (December 1983), 1339-1341.
Kellner, Hans, Review of Rethinking Intellectual History, by Dominick LaCapra. American Historical Review (October 1984), 1048.
Kellner, Hans, Review of Language, Science, and Action, by Ross E. Paulson. American Historical Review 89 (December 1984), 1308-1309.
Kellner, Hans, Review of Philosophy of the Literary Symblic, by Hazard Adams. MLN 99 (December 1984), 1220-1225.
Kellner, Hans, Review of Vico and Marx: Affinities and Contrasts, by ... Journal of Modern History 57 (March 1985), 104-105.
Kellner, Hans, Review ofTime and Narrative, vol. 1, and Tempts et Recit, vol. 2, by Paul Ricoeur, and History and Criticism, by Dominick LaCapra. MLN 100 (December 1985), 1114-1120.
Kellner, Hans, Review of The Clothing of Clio, by Stephen Bann. Journal of Modern History 58 (June 1986), 535-536.
Kellner, Hans, "Identity of the Literary Text" MLN 101 (December 1986), 1249-1253.
Review of The I, by Norman N. Holland.
Kellner, Hans, "Narrativity in History: Post-Structuralism and Since." History and Theory 26:4 (1987), 1-29.
Includes discussion of the work of Paul Ricoeur, Hayden White, and F. R. Ankersmit.
Kellner, Hans, "'To Make Truth Laugh': Eco's The Name of the Rose." In Naming the Rose (University Press of Mississippi, 1988), pp. 3-30.
Kellner, Hans, Review of Ariel and the Police, by Frank Lentricchia. Style 22 (Winter 1988), 654-657.
Kellner, Hans, Review of The Amateur and the Professional, by Philippa Levine. Victorian Studies 31 (Winter 1988), 282-283.
Kellner, Hans. Language and Historical Representation: Getting the Story Crooked. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1989. Rhetoric of the Human Sciences.
"In this original and lucidly argued contribution to the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences series, Hans Kellner illuminates both history and historiography by examining the language used by historians. Kellner maintains that the customary view of history's 'sources'--the documents from which the historical text is drawn--ignores the other sources of historical vision, the inescapable rules of rhetoric and language. The discontinuity of documentation, the continuity of time, and the need to create images of a 'totality' all present problems that require linguistic strategies that disguise themselves as reality, not rhetoric. However, Kellner believes that 'the deepest respect for reality' demands that we acknowledge these 'other' sources.
"This exploration serves not only to propound a philosophy of Kellner's own, but to analyze and bring new meaning to some of the classical texts of history--Braudel's Mediterranean, Spengler's Decline of the West, the works of Guizot, Michelet, and others. By reading 'crookedly,' as he phrases it, the reader stumbles upon the turns of meaning produced by the texts and discovers other stories behind the one constructed for our consumption." from the back cover of the paperback edition
Kellner, Hans, "'As Real as it Gets ...': Ricoeur and Narrativity." Philosophy Today 34 (Fall 1990), 229-242.
Reprinted in Meanings in Texts and Actions: Questioning Paul Ricoeur (University Press of Virginia, 1993), pp. 49-66.
Kellner, Hans, "Beautifying the Nightmare: The Aesthetics of Postmodern History." Strategies 5:4-5 (1991), 300-303.
Kellner, Hans, "Twenty Years After; A Note on Metahistories and Their Horizons." Storia della Storiografia 24 (1993)
Kellner, Hans, Review of History and Memory, by Jacques LeGoff. American Historical Review 98 (June 1993), 819-820.
Kellner, Hans, "After the Fall: Reflections on Histories of Rhetoric." In Writing Histories of Rhetoric Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. pp. 20-37.
Kellner, Hans, "'Never Again' is Now." History and Theory 33:2 (1994), 127-144.
Contribution to a forum on "Representing the Holocaust."
Kelley, Donald R., Review of Narrative Logic, by F. R. Ankersmit. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 15 (Autumn 1984), 317-318.
Kemp, Anthony The Estrangement of the Past.
Kent, Christopher A., Review of The Writing of History, by Michel de Certeau. Canadian Journal of History 24 (August 1989), 179-189.
Kinser, Samuel, Review of History and Tropology, by F. R. Ankersmit. American Historical Review 101 (April 1996), 447-448.
Klein, Kerwin Lee, "Anti-History: The Meaning of Historical Culture." Clio 25:2 (Winter 1996), 125-143.
On Sande Cohen's Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline.
Kramer, Lloyd, "Literature, Criticism, and Historical Imagination: The Literary Challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra." In The New Cultural History Lynn Hunt, Ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), pp. 97-118.
LaCapra, Dominick, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. American Historical Review 93 (October 1988), 1007-1008.
Lang, Berel, "Is it Possible to Misrepresent the Holocaust?" History and Theory 34:1 (1995), 84-89.
Responsed the the contributions of Hans Kellner, Wulf Kansteiner, and Robert Braun in the "Representing the Holocaust" forum in History and Theory (April 1994.
Leitch, Vincent B. Deconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
"In Deconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction, Vincent B. Leitch provides the as-yet-uninitiated reader with a lucid and comprehensive understanding of established thought and the work currently being done in the field. Leitch addresses the questions posed by the major figures -- Saussure, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, Heidegger, Derrida, Barthes, Foucault -- then penetrates and displays the subtle intricacies of their answers." From the back cover.
"Chapter 6, 'The (Inter)Textualization of Context' discusses the work of Hayden White, literary historian Harold Bloom, and Michel Foucault.
Lloyd, Christopher. The Structures of History. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993. Studies in Social Discontinuity.
"All events and actions have structural causes and consequences. Generations of historians have sought to understand these sequences and have at times produced compelling and influential narratives of the peoples and individuals of past times. In The Structures of History Christopher Lloyd questions whether narration on its own can provide a real understanding of history, and addresses in philosophical and practical terms the fundamental problems of whether it is possible to know and explain the history of human social structures, and, if so, how these tasks might be approached.
"The book revolves around an inquiry into the general nature of historical structures, how these have been studied by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers, and how they relate to events, actions, and beliefs. The author presents a carefully formulated argument that on the one hand society proceeds, like the history of the earth itself, largely independent of beliefs and theories about it, and that on the other it is possible to propound a scientific approach to history that is neither positivist nor materialist.
""The author draws upon a wide range of reference in the philosophy of history and science and in the writings of historians and social scientists during the last two centuries. The thrust of his account is against the relativism of those such as Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, and for the complex socio-historical realism exemplified in the writings of, for example, Clifford Geertz, Ernest Gellner, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, and Michael Mann." From the back cover.
Lloyd, Christopher, "For Realism and Against the Inadequacies of Common Sense: A Response to Arthur Marwick." Journal of Contemporary History 31 (January 1996), 191-207.
Lorenz, Chris, "Can Histories Be True? Narrativism, Positivism, and the 'Metaphorical Turn.'" History and Theory 37:3 (October 1998), 309-329.
"Abstract: Narrativism, as represented by Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit, can fruitfully be analyzed as an inversion of two brands of positivism. First, narrativist epistemology can be regarded as an inversion of empiricism. Its thesis that narratives function as metaphors which do not possess a cognitive content is built on an empiricist, 'picture view' of knowledge. Moreover, all the non-cognitive aspects attributed to narrative as such are dependent on this picture theory of knowledge and a picture theory of representation. Most of the epistemological characteristics that White and Ankersmit attribute to historical narratives therefore share the problems of this picture theory.
"The article's second thesis is that the theories of narrative explanation can also fruitfully be analyzed as inversions of positivist covering-law theory. Ankersmit's brand of narrativism is the most radical in this respect because it posits an opposition between narrative and causal modes of comprehension while simultaneously eliminating causality from narrativist historical understanding. White's brand of narrativism is more of a hybrid than is Andersmit's as far as its theory of explanation is concerned; nevertheless, it can also be fruitfully interpreted as an inversion of covering-law theory, replacing it by an indefinate multitude of explanatory strategies.
"Most of the striking characteristics of both White's and Ankersmit's narrativism presuppose positivism in these two senses, especially their claim that historical narratives have a methaphorical structure and therefore no truth-value. These claims are hard to reconcile with the facutal characteristics of debates by historians: this problem can be tracked down to the absence in 'metaphorical' narrativism of a conceptual connectual connection between historical narrativism and historical research."
Martin, Wallace, "Floating an Issue of Tropes." diacritics 12:1 (Spring 1982), 75-83.
A response to two articles by Hans Kellner: "The Inflatable Trope as Narrative Theory.", and "A Bedrock of Order."
McCallum Pamela, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. University of Toronto Quarterly 58 (Summer 1989), 538-539.
McCullagh, C. Behan, "Metaphor and Truth in History." Clio 23 (Fall 1993), 23-49.
Includes discussion of the work of Hayden V. White, F. R. Ankersmit, and Hans Kellner.
McCullagh, C. Behan, review of Narrative Logic, by F.R. Ankersmit. History and Theory 23:3 (1984), 394-403.
McCullagh, C. Behan The Truth of History London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
"Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians confined by the concepts and forms of argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past. Through an examination of the constraints of history, the author argues that although historical descriptions do not mirror the past they can correlate with it in a regular and definable way.
"The Truth of History presents a study of various historical explanations and interpretations and evaluates their success as accounts of the past. C. Behan McCullagh argues that the variety of historical interpretations and their subjectivity does not exclude the possibility of their fairness and truth. His arguments are illustrated with numerous illuminating concrete examples from historical writing." from the back cover of the paperback edition
Contents: Introduction. 1. The Truth and Fairness of Historical Descriptions. 2. The Truth of Historical Generalizations and Classifications. 3. Descriptive Explanations. 4. Historical Interpretations. 5. The Meaning of Texts. 6. The Truth of Cultural History. 7.Causal, Contrastive and Functional Explanations. 8. Explaining Individual Actions. 9. Explaining Collective Actions. 10. Explaining Social Changes. 11. Should We Privilege the Individual? Conclusion.
Megill, Allan, and Donald N. McCloskey, "The Rhetoric of History." In The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. pp. 221-238.
Mellard, James M., Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. Style 22 (Winter 1988), 657-661.
Momigliano, Arnaldo, "The Rhetoric of History and the History of Rhetoric: On Hayden White's Tropes." Comparative Criticism: A Yearbook. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge Unversity Press, 1981.
Murphy, Richard J., "Metahistory and Metafiction: Historiogrpahy and the Fictive in the Work of Hayden White." Revue d'etudes anglophones 2 (Printemps 1997), 3-12.
Orr, Linda. Jules Michelet: Nature, History, and Language. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976.
"This distinguished book probes and interprets four of the later works of the great French historian Jules Michelet. It raises troubling questions about the reassuring distinctions that presumably exist between such categories as fact and fiction, the real and the imaginary.
"Concentrating on the changes in Michelet's thought as he moved from history to natural science, Professor Orr offers close readings of four books, L'Oiseau, L'Insecte, La Mer, and La Montagne. Through her intensive analyses of the natural histories, a new, 'unknown' Michelet emerges, a Michelet whom she aptly characterizes as one of the pivotal figures in the origin of modern European historiography and a writer who made a noteworthy contribution to the intellectual life of the latter part of the nineeteenth century.
"Her book will interest historians of ideas and those concerned with problems of language in writing history, as well as specialists in French studies, particularly those conversant with recent trends in literary criticism." From the dust jacket.
Orr, Linda, "The Revenge of Literature: A History of History." New Literary History 18:1 (Autumn 1986), 1-22.
Orr, Linda. Headless History: Nineteenth Century French Historiography of the Revolution. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Ostrowski, Donald, "A Metahistorical Analysis: Hayden White and Four Narratives of 'Russian' History." Clio 19 (Spring 1990), 215-236.
Otter, Monika. Inventiones: Fiction and Referentiality in Twelfth-Century English Historical Writing. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Pagden, Anthony, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (July/September 1988), 519-529.
Palmer, Bryan D. Review of Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse, by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Journal of American History 83:1 (June 1996), 167-168.
Partner, Nancy F. Serious Entertainments: The Writing of History in Twelfth-Century England. Chicago, 1977.
Partner, Nancy F., "Making Up Lost Time: Writing on the Writing of History." Speculum 61 (1986), 90-117.
Partner, Nancy F., "Notes on the Margins: Editors, Editions, and Sliding Definitions." In The Politics of Editing Medieval Texts. Roberta Frank, Ed. New York, 1993. pp. 1-18.
Partner, Nancy F., "History Without Empiricism/Truth without Facts." In Transformations: The Languages of Culture and Personhood after Theory. Christie McDonald and Gary Wihl, Eds. State College, PA, 1994. pp. 1-10.
Partner, Nancy, "Hayden White (And the Content and the Form and Everyone Else) at the AHA." History and Theory 36:4 (December 1997), 102-110.
"Abstract: The special session at the January 1997 annual meeting of the American Historical Association honoring the achievement of Hayden White and examining the impact and influence of his work on the historical discipline was an enlightening experience, at least to this participant, in many more ways than had been planned or promised. The session itself, albeit fairly routinue by the standard of such occasions, seemed to take on a metanarrative of its own as each of the speakers (not excluding the honoree who was present and participating) confidently spoke at length, proceeding from deep premises which bore no relation to any of the others. My own initial anticipation that this event would produce limited variations on a coherent theme--the impact of the linguistic turn and of narrative theory in particular on the practice and self-definition of academic history--turned gradually to rather disconcerted bemusement, especially when my turn came to listen to myself.
"My previous engagement to report on the AHA session in a paper for the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University became an opportunity to confide some of my freshest reactions to the event in a fairly small and very select audience. Narrating the ephemeral metanarrative I perceived as spinning itself out over the blunter facts of the AHA occasion, turned out to be the inner topic of my Weslyan paper (this present essay), not excluding the mysterious impulses of the audience and the existential atmosphere of the never to be forgotten Princess Ballroom."
Partner, Nancy, "Hayden White: The Form of the Content." History and Theory
"Abstract: Hayden White's perhaps richest and most profoundly argue book, The Content of the Form, touches many nerves in the American historical profession. The entirety of the book, from its premises through its most thoughtful exegeses of historical writing, insists that linguistic form is the primary carrier of content in historical writing, indeed, in historical knowledge. This insistence on a respectful and careful attention to the formal usages of nonfiction prose, truth-claiming language, goes well against the grain of American tastes. As de Tocqueville presciently and correctly predicted, when Americans take to literature in a serious way, they won't have much patience with precise matter of form, Hayden White's narrative theory has had uphill work to penetrate this pervasive indifference, especially among historians.
"He has been joined in recent decades by Paul Ricoeur, whose Time and Narrative, beginning from different premises and a slightly different question, arrives at a sympathetic and complementary analysis of historical narrative. In spite of White's published hesitations about the political/philosophical tendencies of Ricoeur's work, I am convinced that their books are mutually supporting and, in an important cultural sense, belong together.
"Altogether, however, I do feel that the main import and justification of this present essay maust rest on my quite serious reading of Hayden White's best joke, a profound shaggy dog story about the historian monk of St. Gall."
Pierson, Stuart, Review of A New Philosophy of History, Frank Ankersmit and Hans Kellner, Eds. History: Review of New Books 25:2 (Winter 1997), 92-93.
Pihlainen, Kalle, "Narrative Objectivity Versus Fiction: On the Ontology of Historical Narratives." Rethinking History 2:1 (Spring 1998), 7-22.
"Abstract: My main purpose in this paper is to demonstrate that there is an essential distinction to be made between apparently radical claims denying the epistemic authority of historical knowledge and Hayden White's characterization of historical narratives as 'fictional'. Although this point may have little bearing on the central argument of narrative theory, I feel that distinguishing between the more general stance of epistemological relativism and specific questions relating to the referentiality-based ontology of historical narratives is important to a fuller understanding of the nature of historical writing and, in particular, toward (re)establishing the possibility of viewing the study of history as a science subscribing to the ideal of objectivity.
"I argue that the aversion expressed by many practising historians to questions concerning the literary nature of hsitorical writing is based on aa misunderstanding regarding the extent of the central metaphor of 'history as fiction'. Interpreting White's stand as merely questioning our possibilities for obtaining historical knowledge in general -- altought itself apparently radical and perhaps useful as a means to other ends -- succeeds in obscuring other, more intricate dimension of the arguments regarding the fictional nature of historical narratives."
Ricoeur, Paul. History and Truth. Translated by C. A. Kelbley. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1965.
Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative 3 vols. Vols. 1-2 translated by Kathleen McGlaughlin and David Pellaur. Vol. 3 translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellaur. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1984-88.
"Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentance. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.
"Ricouer finds a 'healthy circle' between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent of its expression in narrative; narrative, in turn, is meaningful to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricouer proposes a theoretical model of this circle using Augustine's theory of time and Aristotle's theory of plot and, further, develops an original thesis of the mimetic function of narrative. He concludes with a comprehensive survey and critique of modern discussions of historical knowledge, understanding, and writing from Aron and Mandelbaum in the late 1930s to the work of the Annales school and that of Anglophone philosophers of history of the 1960s and 1970s." From the back cover of Volume 1.
"In volume 1 of this three-volume work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing. Now, in volume 2, he examines these relations in fiction and theories of literature.
"Ricoeur treats the question of just how far the Aristotelean concept of 'plot' in narrative fiction can be expanded and whether there is a point at which narrative fiction as a literary form not only blurs at the edges but ceases to exist at all. Though some semiotic theorists have proposed that all fiction can be reduced to understanding of narrative traditions, which do evolve but necessarily include a temporal dimension. He looks at how time is actually expressed in narrative this approach to three books that are, in a sense, tales about time: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway; Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain; and Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. From the back cover of volume 2.
"In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur, examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.
"Ricoeur's aim here is to explicate as fully as possible the hypothesis that has governed his inquiry, namely, that the effort of thinking at work in every narrative configuration is completed in a refiguration of temporal experience. To this end, he sets himself the central task of determining how far a poetics of narrative can be said to resolve the 'aporias'--the doubtful or problematic elements--of time. Chief among these aporias are the conflicts between the phenomenological sense of time (that experienced or lived by the individual) and the cosmological sense (that described by history and physics) on the one hand and the oneness or unitary nature of time on the other. In conclusion, Ricoeur reflects upon the inscrutability ot time itself and attempts to discern the limits of his own examination of narrative discourse." from the back cover of volume 3.
Ricoeur, Paul, "History and Rhetoric." Translated by Thomas Epstein. In The Social Responsibility of the Historian. Francois Bedarida, Ed. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1994. pp. 7-24.
Rigney, Ann, "Toward Varennes." New Literary History 18:1 (Autumn 1986), 77-98.
Rigney, Ann. The Rhetoric of Historical Representation: Three Narrative Histories of the French Revolution. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Rigney, Ann, "Mixed Metaphors and the Writing of History." Storia della Storiografia 24 (1993)
Roberts, Geoffrey, "Narrative History as a Way of Life." Journal of Contemporary History 31 (January 1996), 221-228.
Roth, Michael S., "Cultural Criticism and Political Theory: Hayden White's Rhetorics of History." Political Theory 16 (November 1988), 636-646.
Roth, Michael S., Review of Beyond the Great Story, by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. American Historical Review 102:2 (April 1997), 427-428.
Roth, Paul A., "Hayden White and the Aesthetics of Historiography." History of the Human Sciences 5:1 (February 1992), 17-35.
Rusen, Jorn, "Rhetoric and Aesthetics of History: Leopold von Ranke." History and Theory 29:2 (1990)
Scott, Robert Lee, Review of The Content of the Form, by Haydent White. Quarterly Journal of Speech 74 (February 1988), 114-116.
Shiner, L. E. The Secret Mirror: Literary Form and History in Tocqueville's Recollections. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.
"Tocqueville opens the Recollections, his deeply ambivalent memoir of the failed 1848 Revolution in France, with an explicit denial of any literary intent or rhetorical appeal. Forced by illness into an unaccustomed state of leisure, Tocqueville claims to record his experiences solely for his own amusement, holding up a 'secret mirror' through which he will be able to contemplate the past truthfully. In this innovative study, L. E. Shiner examines the Recollections as a test case of the relation between form and content in historical writing. Drawing on current literary theory and semiotics, Shiner offers a close reading which at once confirms the inevitably literary character of historical writing and demonstrates how rhetorical analysis of Tocqueville's writings deepens our understanding of his political thought.
"The Recollections, in which Tocqueville rendered events he had witnessed two years before, is both a representation of history and a primary document for historical study; thus it lends itself to a close study of the epistemological and literary dimensions of historical writing.
"Using the methods of reader-response and rhetorical criticisms, among others, Shiner first analyzes the component genres and narrative structure of the Recollections the recurring pictorial and thematic codes, and the various voices Tocqueville employs. He then confronts the issue of the truth of Tocqueville's treatment of 1848, in part by comparing it with other key texts on these same events--Marx's The Class Struggles in France and Flaubet's Sentimental Education. Finally, Shiner pursues questions of authorial style, tracing the use of some of the rhetorical devices discussed in the Recollections through Tocqueville's Democracy in America, The Old Regime and The French Revolution, and 'A Fortnight in the Wilderness.'
"The Secret Mirror is a fresh and engaging account of how recent methods of intellectual history can illuminate a text, its relation to the reader, and its relation to history." From the dust jacket.
Southwick, Beverley, "History and Metahistory: Marwick versus White." Journal of Contemporary History 31 (January 1996), 209-214.
Spiegel, Gabrielle M. Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. The New Historicism.
"In a poststrucuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic changes and political threats from the monarchy." From the back cover.
Stock, Brian, "History, Literature, and Medieval Textuality." Yale French Studies 70 (1986), 7-17.
Stock, Brian, "Afterthoughts." diacritics 16:3 (Fall 1983), 76-78.
Stock, Brian. Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society series.
"That segment of the past which Brian Stock most often uses for his work runs from the end of antiquity to the thirteenth century. More generally, however, his work concerns itself with the ways in which we recollect the past by putting words into writings. Here Stock ponders the creation of the past as text, considering equally the past that is written about and the very writing that brings it too life.
"Listening for a wide range of medieval and modern texts, Stock studies the ways in which the growth of interest in language in the Middle Ages forms the background to the contemporary study of oral and literate culture. He discusses the possibilities opened by new forms of cooperation between history and literature and explores the role that medieval linguistic theory played in shaping modern social categories; the legacy of Romanticism in our conceptualization of the Middle Ages; the use of literary discourse in the writing of social history; the problem of 'textual communities' in early Christianity and Judaism; and the concepts of tradition and modernity that emerge from cultural anthropology.
"'The making of historical texts is often the work of later observers,' Stock observes. 'But mostly it originates within communities themselves. What ethnography has learned better than history is that societies do not have to wait for official interpreters to come along before they make the political choice that leads to a preference for one type of retrospective over another. Writing is one way of giving shape to the past. In the West, for better or worse, it is the accepted way.'" From the dust jacket.
Struever, Nancy S., "Irony and Experimentation in Hayden White." Storia della Storiografia 24 (1993)
Tambling, Jeremy, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. Modern Language Quarterly 49 (June 1988), 192-194.
Toews, John E., Review of The New Historicism, H.Aram Veeser, Ed., and The Content of the Form: Narrative, Discourse and Historical Representation, by Hayden White. History of the Human Sciences 4:1 (February 1991), 154-159.
Toews, John E. Review of Language and Historical Representation, by Hans Kellner. Comparative Studies in Society and History 34 (January 1992), 191-192.
Tholfsen, Trygve, Review of Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline , by Sande Cohen. Journal of Higher Education 59 (January/February 1988), 92-94.
Thomas, Brook, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. Novel 22 (Winter 1989), 247-249.
Todd, Jane Marie, Review of Language and Historical Representation, by Hans Kellner. Comparative Literature 43 (Spring 1991), 204-206.
Valdes, Mario J., Ed. A Ricoeur Reader: Reflection and Imagination. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Theory/Culture 2.
Contents: Introduction: Paul Ricoeur's Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics. I. Philosophical Context for a Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics. "What is a Text? Explanation and Understanding"; "Word, Polysemy, Metaphor: Creativity in Language"; "Appropriation"; "The Human Experience of Time and Narrative"; "The Function of Fiction in Shaping Reality"; "Mimesis and Representation." II. The Dialectic of Engagement. "Habermas"; "Geertz"; "Construing and Constructing: A Review of The Aims of Interpretation by E. D. Hirsch, Jr."; "The Conflict of Interpretations: Debate with Hans-Georg Gadamer"; "Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, or the Order of Paradigms"; "Greimas's Narrative Grammar"; "On Narrativity: Debate with A. J. Greimas." III. Aspects of Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics. "Metaphor and the Main Problem of Hermeneutics"; "Writing as a Problem for Literary Criticism and Philosophical Hermeneutics"; "Narrated Time"; "Time Traversed: Remembrance of Things Past"; "Between the Text and Its Readers"; "Life: A Story in Search of a Narrator." IV. The Dialogical Disclosure: Interviews with Paul Ricoeur. "Phenomenology and Theory of Literature"; "Poetry and Possibility"; "The Creativity of Language"; "Myth as the the Bearer of Possible Worlds"; "World of the Text, World of the Reader."
Vann, Richard T., "The Reception of Hayden White." History and Theory 37:2 (May 1998), 143-161.
"Abstract: Evaluation of the Influence of Hayden White on the theory of history is made difficult by his preference for the essay form, valued for its experimental character, and by the nee to find comparable data. A quantitative study of citations of his work in English and foreign-language journals, 1973-1991, reveals that although historians were prominent among early readers of Metahistory, few historical journals reviewed White's two subsequent collections of essays and few historians--except in Germany--cited them. Those historians who did tended still to cite Metahistory and often the parts of it devoted specifically to nineteenth-century historians.
"Literary critics, on the other hand, were relatively late to discover White, but during the 'narrative turn' of the 1970s and 1980s his work was important for students of the novel and the theater. Recognition of it was especially marked in Spanish-speaking countries and in Germany.
"As a result, salient themes of White's later work--the ideological and political import of narrativization, the 'historical sublime,' and writing in the 'middle voice'--have largely gone unremarked by historians and philosophers. Both these groups have tended to be irritated by White's bracketing of questions of historical epistemology; some have accused him of effacing the line between fiction and history, while White's numerous literary readers have generally applauded his tendencies in this direction. White however has consistently maintained that there is a difference, although not the one conventionally postulated. His exploration of writing in the 'middle voice' brings his work full circle, in that it promises a 'modernist' realism appropriate for representing the 'sublime' events of our century."
Veyne, Paul. Writing History: Essay on Epistemology. 1971; Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1984. Translated from the French edition by Mina Moore-Rinvolucri.
Originally published as Comment on ecrit l'histoire: essai d'epistemologie.
"This book has rekindled reflection on historical methods and concepts in France." Michel Foucault.
"Writing History--which stands alone on the French landscape--has the noteworthy advantage of conjoining a scientific abasement of history with an apology for the notion of plot. ... The question Paul Veyne's book raises is how far we can extend [this] notion of plot without its losing its discrimination ability. This question today must be addressed to all the upholders of a 'narrativist' theory of history. English-speaking authors have been able to avoid it because their examples usually are naive and do not surpass the level of the hsistory of events. Yet it is when history ceases to be history of events that the narrativist theory is really called into queston. The force of Paul Veyne's book is to have brought to this critical point the idea that history is only constructing and understanding plots." Paul Ricoeur in Time and Narrative.
Veyne, Paul, "The Inventory of Differences." Translated by Elizabeth Kingdom. Economy and Society 11:2 (May 1982), 173-198.
"This is a text of Veyne's inaugural lecture at the College de France, published by Editions du Seuil, Paris 1976 under the title 'L'inventaire des differences'."
Weber, Eugen J., Review of Writing History: Essay on Epistemology, by Paul Veyne. New York Times Book Review 89 (22 July 1984), 13-14.
Wellek, Rene, Review of The Content of the Form, by Hayden White. Partisan Review 55 (Spring 1988), 334-337.
White, Hayden, "Collingwood and Toynbee: Transitions in English Historical Thought." English Miscellany 7 (1956)
White, Hayden, "Religion, Culture and Western Civilization in Christopher Dawson's Idea of History." English Miscellany 9 (1958)
White, Hayden, "Translator's Introduction." In C. Antoni. From History to Sociology Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1959. pp. ix-xxviii.
White, Hayden, Ibn Khaldun in World Philosophy of History." Comparative Studies in Society and History 2 (1959),
White, Hayden, "The Abiding Relevance of Croce''s Idea of History." Journal of Modern History 35 (1963)
White, Hayden, Comment AHA Newsletter 3 (1965), 6.
On History, by John Higham, Leonard Krieger, and Felix Gilbert.
White, Hayden, Review of The Later Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood, by Alan Donagen. History and Theory 4 (1965),
White, Hayden, "The Burden of History." History and Theory 5 (1966), 111-134.
White, Hayden, "The Tasks of Intellectual History." The Monist 5[3/8] (1969), 606-630.
White, Hayden, "The Culture of Criticism." In Liberations: New Essays on the Humanities in Revolution Ihab Hassan, Ed. Middletown, CT, 1971.
White, Hayden, "The Structure of Historical Narrative." Clio 1 (1971), 5-20.
White, Hayden, "What Is a Historical System?" In Biology, History and Natural Philosophy Allen D. Breckland and Wolfgang Yourgrau, Eds. New York, 1972.
White, Hayden, "The Irrational and the Problem of Historical Knowledge." In Irrationalism in the Eighteenth Century Harold E. Pagliaro, Ed. Cleveland, 1972. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 2.
White, Hayden, "The Politics of Contemporary Philosophy of History." Clio 3 (1973), 35-53.
See also: W. H. Dray's critique in same issue, pp. 53-76.
White, Hayden. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
White, Hayden, "Foucault Decoded: Notes from Underground." History and Theory 12 (1973), 23-54.
White, Hayden, "Structuralism and Popular Culture." Journal of Popular Culture 7 (Spring 1974), 759-775.
White, Hayden, "Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination." History and Theory 14 (1975), 48-67.
White, Hayden, "The Problem of Change in Literary History." New Literary History 7 (1975), 97-111.
White, Hayden, "The Tropics of History: The Deep Structure of the New Science." In Giambattista Vico's Science of Humanity Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Donald Philip Verene, Eds. Baltimore, 1976.
White, Hayden. Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
Hayden White's Metahistory has become a text central to all discussion of the nature of historical writing. In Tropics of Discourse White continues his exploration of the relationship between history and other literary forms.
Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.
Tropics of Discourse delineates a discipline White calls 'cultural criticism,' on which he proposes to found a general theory of criticism that will encompass a wide variety of materials, from anthropological data to science and literature. It gives insight into the contest in which Metahistory was written and extends the scope while increasing the prcision of the terms used in that work." From the back cover.
Includes: "Introduction: Tropology, Discourse, and the Modes of Human Consciousness"; "The Burden of History"; "Interpretation in History"; "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact"; "Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination"; "The Fictions of Factual Representation"; "The Irrational and the Problem of Historical Knowledge in the Enlightenment"; "The Forms of Wildness: Archaeology of an Idea"; "The Noble Savage Theme as Fetish"; "The Tropics of History: The Deep Structure of the New Science"; "What is Living and What Is Dead in Croce's Criticism of Vico"; "Foucault Decoded: Notes from Underground"; "The Absurdist Moment in Contemporary Literary Theory."
White, Hayden, "Rhetoric and History" in Theories of History: Papers of the Clark Library Seminar Peter Reill, Ed. Los Angeles, 1978. pp. 1-25.
White, Hayden, "The Problem of Style in Realistic Representation: Marx and Flaubert" in The Concept of Style Berel Lang, Ed. Philadelphia, 1979. pp. 213-229.
White, Hayden V., Review of Historik, by Johann Gustav Droysen. History and Theory 19:1 (1980), 73-93.
White, Hayden, "Fiery Numbers and Strange Productions: A Cento of Thoughts on Ihab Hassan." diacritics 10:4 (Winter 1980), 50-59.
Review of Ihab Hassan, The Right Promethean Fire.
White, Hayden, "Method and Ideology in Intellectual History: The Case of Henry Adams." In Modern European Intellectual History Dominick LaCapra and Steven L. Kaplan, Eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. pp. 280-310.
White, Hayden, "Getting Out of History." diacritics 12 (Fall 1982), 2-13.
White, Hayden, "The Politics of Historical Interpretation: Discipline and De-Sublimation." Critical Inquiry 9 (September 1982), 113-137.
White, Hayden, Review of From Locke to Saussure, by Hans Aarsleff. Partisan Review 50:4 (1983), 618-622.
White, Hayden, "The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory." History and Theory 23:1 (1984), 1-33.
White, Hayden, Review of Narrative Logic, by F.R. Ankersmit. American Historical Review 89 (October 1984), 1037-1038.
White, Hayden, "He Merged Myth and History." New York Times Book Review (23 December 1984), 7.
Review of Victor Hugo and tht Visionary Novel, by Victor H. Brombert.
White, Hayden, Review of The Paradox of History, by Nicola Chiaromonte. New York Times Book Review 90 (22 September 1985), 7.
White, Hayden, "Historical Pluralism." Critical Inquiry 12 (Spring 1986), 480-493.
White, Hayden. The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
"Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning -- its production, distribution, and consumption -- in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in 'the content of the form,' in the way our narrative capacities transform the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended." From the back cover.
Includes: "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality"; "The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory"; "The Politics of Historical Interpretation: Discipline and De-Sublimation"; "Droysen's Historik: Historical Writing as a Bourgeois Science"; "Foucault's Discourse: The Historiography of Anti-Humanism"; "Getting Out of History: Jameson's Redemption of Narrative"; "The Metaphysics of Narrativity: Time and Symbol in Ricoeur's Philosophy of History"; "The Context in the Text: Method and Ideology in Intellectual History."
White, Hayden, Review of Futures Past, by Reinhart Koselleck. American Historical Review 92 (December 1987), 1175-1176.
White, Hayden, The Rhetoric of Interpretation." Poetics Today 9 (1988), 253-279.
White, Hayden, Review of The Growth of Minds and Cultures, by Willem H. Vanderburg. Isis 79 (September 1988), 493-494.
White, Hayden, "Historiography and Historiophoty." American Historical Review 93:5 (December 1988), 1193-1199.
White, Hayden, Review of Vico in the Tradition of Rhetoric, by Michael Mooney. Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (Winter 1988/89), 219-222.
White, Hayden, "New Historicism: A Comment." In The New Historicism J. Aram Veeser, Ed. New York; Routledge, 1989. pp. 293-302.
White, Hayden, "'Figuring the Nature of the Times Deceased': Literary Theory and Historical Writing." In The Future of Literary Theory R. Cohen, Ed. New York: Routledge, 1989. pp. 19-43.
White, Hayden, "Ideology and Counterideology in the Anatomy." In Visionary Poetics Peter Lang, 1991. pp. 101-111.
White, Hayden, "Vattimo's 'Weak' Thought and Vico's 'New' Science" N ew Vico Studies 9 (1991), 61-68.
Review of Gianni Vattimo, The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture.
White, Hayden, "Form, Reference, and Ideology in Muscial Discourse." In Music and Text: Critical Inquiries Steven Paul Scher, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. pp. 288-319.
White, Hayden, "The Metaphysics of Narrativity: Time and Symbol in Ricoeur's Philosophy of History. " In On Paul Ricoeur David C. Wood, Ed. London, 1991.
White, Hayden, "Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth." In Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the 'Final Solution' Saul Friedlander, Ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. pp. 37-53.
White, Hayden, "Historiography as Narration." In Telling Facts: History and Narration in Psychoanalysis Baltimore. MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. pp. 284-299.
White, Hayden, "Writing in the Middle Voice." Stanford Literary Review 9:2 (Fall 1992), 179-187.
Reprinted in Schrift, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer, Eds. Munich, 1993.
White, Hayden, Review of The Production of Space, by Henri Lefebvre. Design Book Review 29/30 (Summer/Fall 1993), 90-93.
White, Hayden, "Frye's Place in Contemporary Cultural Studies." In The Legacy of Northrop Fryne Alvin A. Lee and Robert D. Denham, Eds. Toronto, 1994.
White, Hayden, Review of G. B. Vico, by Mark Lilla. Political Theory 22 (August 1994), 509-511.
White, Hayden, "Age-old Problems." Times Higher Education Supplement 1151 (25 November 1994), 17-18.
Adapted from "Response to Arthur Marwick." Journal of Contemporary History 30 (April 1995), 233-246.
White, Hayden< "The Body and the Plots." In Choreographing History Susan Leigh Foster, Ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. pp. 229-234.
White, Hayden, "A Rejoinder to Professor Chartier's 'Four Questions'." Storia della Storiografia 27 (1995)
White, Hayden, "Response to Arthur Marwick." Journal of Contemporary History 30 (April 1995), 233-246.
See Arthur Marwick's "Two Approaches to Historical Study."
White, Hayden V., "Auerbach's Literary History: Figural Causation and Modern Historicism." In Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach Seth Lerer, Ed. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. pp. 123-143.
White, Hayden, "Storytelling: Historical and Ideological." In Centuries' Ends: Narrative Means Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. pp. 58-78.
White, Hayden, "Commentary." History of the Human Sciences 9:4 (November 1996), 123-138.
Concerns a series of essays responding to Steve Buckler's "Historical Narrative, Identity and the Holocaust."
White, H. V., "The Modernist Event." In The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television and the Modern Event V. Sobchack, Ed. New York, 1996.
White, Hayden, "The Suppression of Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century." In The Rhetoric Canon Brenda Deen Schildgen, Ed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. pp. 21-32.
White, Hayden Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
"In his earlier books such as Tropics of Discourse and The Content of the Form, Hayden White focused on the conventions of historicl writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In Figural Realism, 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,' White observes, '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.'
Contents: "Literary Theory and Historical Writing"; "Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth in Historical Representation"; Formalist and Contextualist Strategies in Historical Explanation"; "The Modernist Event"; "Auerbach's Literary History: Figural Caustation and Modernist Historicism"; "Freud's Tropology of Dreaming"; Narrative Description, and Tropology in Proust"; "Form, Reference, and Ideology in Musical Discourse."
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Wiseman, T. P. Clio's Cosmetics: Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature Leicester University Press, and Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979.
"Clio is the Muse of History, her cosmetics the adornments of rhetoric. Professor Wiseman's new book is about the writing of history in the first century B.C., when Rome had become the centre of the Greek literary world as well as her own. Historians, like all writers of the time, had been trained at school in the art of persuasion, and its techniques dominated their mental world to an extent which we find it hard to imagine; plausibility counted for much more than evidence, and the standards of disinterested enquiry which the modern world takes for granted in thewriting of history were beyond the aspirations of even the best of them. Moreover, since legend and history were not clearly distinguished, the work of histoiran and poet often overlapped to an alarming degree.
"The first of the three studies is an account of three limitations in the Greek and Roman historians, and a reminder of the dangers of innocently believing what they tell us; the second deals with the pseudo-history of the patrician Claudii, invented by writers of the first century and transmitted to us through Livy and Dionysius; in the third, the dedication of Catullus' book of poems to an historian is discussed against the background of the two authors' common intellectual heritage.
"Cornelius Nepos, Valerias Antias, Aelius Tubero: these unfamiliar names from the Ciceroian age are restored by Professor Wiseman to their true significance in the lost history of late-republican historical writing--even though what they wrote would be classified by a modern librarian as mythography or historical fiction." From the dust jacket
Woodman, A. J. Rhetoric in Classical Historiography London, 1988.
Zagorin, Perez, "Historiography and Postmodernism: Reconsiderations." History and Theory 29:3 (1990), 271.
Zammito, John H., "Ankersmit's Postmodernist Historiography: The Hyperbole of 'Opacity'." History and Theory 37:3 (October 1998), 330-346.
"Abstract: Ankersmit's articulation of a postmodern theory of history takes seriously both the strengths of traditional historicism and the right of historians to decide what makes sense for disciplinary practice. That makes him an exemplary interlocutor. Ankersmit proposes a theory of historical 'representation' which radicalizes the narrative approach to historiography along the lines of poststructuralist textualism. Against this postmodernism buti nvoking some of his own arguments, I defend the traditional historicist position. I formulate criticisms of the theory of reference entailed in his notion of 'narrative substance.' of his master analogy of historiography with modern painting, and fnally of his characterization of historical hermeneutics. In each case I find him guilty of the hyperbole which he himself cautions against. While it is true that historical narratives cannot be taken to be transparent, in taking them to be opaque Ankersmit puts himself in an untenable position. Finally, Ankersmit seeks to buttress his theoretical case by an interpretation of the new cultural historical texts of authors like Davis and Ginzburg. While this is a concreteness heartily to be welcomed in philosopies of history, I cannot find his construction of this new school's work plausible."
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