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The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
The American Historical Review · 1988 · Vol. 93(4) · pp. 1007–1007
Abstract
Hayden White probes notion of authority in art and literature and examines problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption-in different historical epochs. In end, he suggests, only meaning that history can have is kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in the content of form, in way our narrative capacities transform present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended.
Rhetoric and Communication StudiesVisual Culture and Art TheoryDigital Humanities and ScholarshipNarrativeMeaning (existential)Content (measure theory)Representation (politics)ConsciousnessNarrative historyNarrative criticismAestheticsWhite (mutation)Literature
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