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Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism

Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism

by HaydenWhite (Author)

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    Paperback 1985

    $33.80
Synopsis

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 the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 300
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 01 Mar 1985
ISBN 10: 0801827418
ISBN 13: 9780801827419

Media Reviews
Like most of White's work, the book arises from a boldly imaginative transaction between the philosophy of history, literary criticism and semiotics. * Notes and Queries *
No other historian appears to be at the frontier of so many developments or so skillful at integrating them into traditional American scholarship in the history of ideas. In this White seems a successor to A. O. Lovejoy and Ernst Cassirer. * Journal of Modern History *
Author Bio
Hayden White is professor emeritus of the histories 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 Cultural Criticism, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, and Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.