The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
by Hayden White
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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.Tags
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i read this book one winter in the santa cruz mountains and it popped my brain open like a grape. this is the book that will explain fascism as a literary form, for example. it is, as Al Swearengen would say, fuckin marvelous.
Lo menciona Feierstein, Daniel. Memorias y Representaciones. 1a ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2012. Se lo plantea en relación con el concepto de identidad narrativa de Ricoeur.
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Hayden White is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford University, and professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of a number of books published by Johns Hopkins, including Tropics of Discourse: Essays in show more Cultural Criticism, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, and Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. show less
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- 1987
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