Hayden white: The form of the content

History and Theory

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 162-172

  Partner, Nancy ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 60950208407     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0018-2656.00046     Document Type: Review

References (6)

1. Alexis de Tocqueville, "Literary Characteristics of Democratic Times," in Democracy in America [1840], vol. 2, chapter XIII (New York, 1945) and many reprintings
2. Hayden White, "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality," 6-20 for the full discussion, including an interesting comparison with Richer of Rheims, a tenth-century historian. As a medievalist I take particular pleasure in this deftly nuanced and informed reading of the annals form and am tempted to conclude that training in medieval history is a near-ideal foundation for the study of theoretical historiography
3. White, "Value of Narrativity," 13.
4. White, "The Metaphysics of Narrativity: Time and Symbol in Ricoeur's Philosophy of History," in Content of the Form, 173-175
5. Ricoeur would have to agree, of course, given his premise that "history cannot, in my opinion, sever every connection with narrative without losing its historical character," Time and Narrative, I, 177.
6. Ewa Domanska, Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism (Charlottesville, Va., 1997)