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Tropics of discourse essays in cultural criticism

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  • Author: White, Hayden V.
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    2013
    Contents:
    • The burden of history
    • Interpretation in history
    • The historical text as literary artifact
    • Historicism, history, and the figurative imagination
    • The fictions of factual epresentation
    • The irrational and the problem of historical knowledge in the enlightenment
    • The forms of wildness: archaeology of an idea
    • The noble savage theme as fetish
    • The tropics of history: the deep structure of the New Science - What is living and what is dead in Croce's Criticism of Vico
    • Foucault decoded: notes from underground
    • The absurdist moment in contemporary literary theory.
    Subject(s): Collected works | Historiography | History | Literature and history | Philosophy
    Original Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985
    Language(s): English