{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-narrative-essays-on-history-literature-and-theory-1998-2007-hardback-9781501764738","title":"The Ethics of Narrative; Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998–2007 (Hardback) 9781501764738","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Ethics of Narrative\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998–2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHayden White (Author), Robert Doran (Edited by), Judith Butler (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501764738\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 August 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant posthumous collection of Hayden White's writings. Those of us who care about White will be grateful to Doran for so conscientiously undertaking this legacy groundwork.\u003c\/p\u003e (American Literary History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e brings together nearly all of White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing a lesser-known side of White: that of the public intellectual. From modern patriotism and European identity to Hannah Arendt's writings on totalitarianism, from the idea of the historical museum and the theme of melancholy in art history to trenchant readings of Leo Tolstoy and Primo Levi, the first volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e shows White at his most engaging, topical, and capacious.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpertly introduced by editor Robert Doran, who lucidly explains the major themes, sources, and frames of reference of White's thought, this volume features five previously unpublished lectures, as well as more complete versions of several published essays, thereby giving the reader unique access to White's late thought. In addition to historical theorists and intellectual historians, \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities in such fields as literary and cultural studies, art history and visual studies, and media studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Hayden White, History, and the Ethics of Narrative\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Problem with Modern Patriotism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Symbols and Allegories of Temporality\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Catastrophe, Communal Memory, and Mythic Discourse: The Uses of Myth in the Reconstruction of Society\u003cbr\u003e 5. Figura and Historical Subalternation\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Westernization of World History\u003cbr\u003e 7. On Transcommunality and Models of Community\u003cbr\u003e 8. Anomalies of the Historical Museum or, History as Utopian Space\u003cbr\u003e 9. Figural Realism in Witness Literature: On Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Elements of Totalitarianism: On Hannah Arendt\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Metaphysics of Western Historiography: Cosmos, Chaos, and Sequence in Historiological Representation\u003cbr\u003e 12. Historicality as a Trope of Political Discourse: Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics\u003cbr\u003e 13. Exile and Abjection\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Dark Side of Art History: On Melancholy\u003cbr\u003e 15. Against Historical Realism: A Reading of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607871516952,"sku":"9781501764738","price":109.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ethics-of-narrative-essays-on-history-literature-and-theory-1998-2007-hardback-9781501764738","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}