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Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. 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 transforms the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have desceneded.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: theory & methods

• Full title: Content of the Form
• Author: Hayden White
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780801841156
• ISBN: 0801841151
• ID: 04162971
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 382 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 149 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. September 1990

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