Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White¿s Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the...

White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism. von White, Hayden

The Ethics of Narrative von White, Hayden

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...