Figural Realism Studies in the Mimesis Effect

• Main Author: White, Hayden (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
• Subjects: History of Western philosophy; History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
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Originally published in 1998. In his earlier books such as Tropics of Discourse and The Content of the Form, Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In Figural Realism, White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned...