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Tropics of Discourse

Essays in Cultural Criticism

Hayden White author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:1st Jan '78

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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.

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

ISBN: 9780801827419

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 408g

304 pages