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HAYDEN WHITE (1928 - )

CONFERENCES

• Between History and Narrative: Colloquium in Honor of Hayden White, University of Rochester, April 24-25, 2009

SOURCES: PRIMARY

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• Anthologies:

  • The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007.  Ed. Robert Doran.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2010. 

  • Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. 

  • The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987. 

  • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.

• Edited Works:

  • Representing Kenneth Burke.  Ed. White and Margaret Brose.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982.

  • Giambattista Vico: an International Symposium.  Ed. White and Giorgio Tagliacozzo.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1969. 

  • The Uses of History: Essays in Intellectual and Social History.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1968. 

• Selected Individual Works:

  • "Freud's Tropology of Dreaming."  Figural Realism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.  101-125.

  • "Postmodernism and Textual Anxieties."  The Postmodern Challenge: Perspectives East and West.  Ed. Nina Witoszek and Bo Strth.  London: Sage, 1999.  27-45.

  • "Postmodernism, Textualism, and History."  Literatur - Forschung Heute.  Ed. Eckart Goebel and Wolfgang Klein.  Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999.  173-184.

  • "Afterword."  Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture.  Ed. Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1999.  315-324.

  • "The End of Narrative Historiography."  Swiat historii [The World of History]: Essays presented to Jerzy Topolski on his 70th Birthday.  Ed. Wojciech Wrzosek.  Poznañ: IH UAM, 1998.  393-409.

  • "The Suppression of Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century."  The Rhetorical Canon.  Ed. Brenda Schildgen.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.

  • "Storytelling: Historical and Ideological."  Centuries' Ends, Narrative Means.  Ed. Robert Newman.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996.  58-78.

  • "Auerbach's Literary History: Figural Causation and Modernist Historicism."  Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: the Legacy of Erich Auerbach.  Ed. Seth Lerer.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996.  123-143. 

    • Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.  87-100.

  • "The Modernist Event."  The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event.  Ed. VIvian Sobchak.  London: Routledge, 1996.  Rpt. in Figural Realism.  66-86.

  • "Response to Arthur Marwick."  Journal of Contemporary History 30.2 (1995): 233-246.

  • "Frye's Place in Contemporary Cultural Studies."  The Legacy of Northrop Frye.  Ed. Alvin Lee and Robert Denham.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1994.  28-39.

  • "Form, Reference, and Ideology in Musical Discourse."  Music and Text: Critical Inquiries.  Ed. Steven Paul Scher.  Cambridge: CUP, 1992. 

    • Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.  147-176.

  • "Historiography as Narration."  Telling Facts: History and Narration in Psychoanalysis.  Ed. Morris and Joseph H. Smith.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.  284-299.

  • "Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth."  Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the 'Final Solution'.  Ed. Saul Friedlander.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.  37-53. 

    • The History and Narrative Reader.  Ed. Geoffrey Roberts.  London: Routledge, 2001.  375-389.

    • Rpt. as "Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth in Historical Representation."  Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.  27-42. 

  • "'Figuring the Nature of the Times Deceased': Literary Theory and Historical Writing."  The Future of Literary Theory.  Ed. Ralph Cohen.  London: Routledge, 1989.  19-43. 

    • Rpt. as "Literary Theory and Historical Writing."  Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.  1-26.

  • "Romantic Historiography."  A New History of French Literature.  Ed.  Denis Hollier.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989.  1823-1827.

  • "New Historicism: a Comment."  The New Historicism.  Ed. H. Aram Vesser.  London: Routledge, 1989.  293-302. 

    • Rpt. as "Formalist and Contextualist Strategies in Historical Explanation."  Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.  43-65.

  • "Historiography and Historiophoty."  The American Historical Review 95.5 (1988): 1193-1199.

  • "The Rhetoric of Interpretation."  Poetics Today 9.2 (1988): 253-274. 

    • Rpt. as "Narrative, Description, and Tropology in Proust."  Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.  126-146. 

    • The Rhetoric of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Rhetoric.  Ed. Paul Hernadi.  Durham: Duke UP, 1989.  1-22.

  • "Historical Pluralism."  Critical Inquiry 12.3 (1986): 480-493.

  • "The Rule of Narrativity: Symbolic Discourse and the Experience of Time in Ricoeur's Thought."  University of Ottawa Quarterly 55.4 (1985): 287-299. 

    • Rpt. as "The Metaphysics of Narrativity: Time and Symbol in Ricoeur's Philosophy of History."  The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.  169-184. 

  • "The Interpretation of Texts."  Berkshire Review 19 (1984): 7-23.

  • "The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory."  History and Theory 23.1 (1984): 1-33. 

    • The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.  26-57.  

  • "Getting Out of History: Jameson's Redemption of Narrative."  Diacritics 12 (1982): . 

    • The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.  142-168.

  • "Method and Ideology in Intellectual History: the Case of Henry Adams."  Modern European Intellectual History. Reappraisals and New Perspectives.  Ed. Dominick LaCapra and Steven L. Kaplan.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982.  280-310. 

    • Rpt. as "The Context in the Text: Method and Ideology in Intellectual History."  The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.  185-213.

  • "The Politics of Historical Interpretation: Discipline and De-Sublimation."  Critical Inquiry 9.1 (1982): 113-138. 

    • The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.  58-82.

  • "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality."  Critical Inquiry 7.1 (1980): 5-27. 

    • The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.  1-25.

  • "Conventional Conflicts."  New Literary History 13.1 (1981): 145-160.

  • "Literature and Social Action: Reflections on the Reflection Theory of Literary Art."  New Literary History 11.2 (1980): 363-380.

  • "The Discourse of History."  Humanities in Society. 2.1 (1979): 1-15. 

  • "The Problem of Style in Realistic Representation: Marx and Flaubert."  The Concept of Style.  Ed. Berel Lang.  Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1979.  213-229.

  • "Michel Foucault."  Structuralism and Since: from Lévi-Strauss to Derrida.  Ed. and Intro. John Sturrock.  Oxford: OUP, 1979.  81-115. 

    • Rpt. as "Foucault's Discourse: the Historiography of Anti-Humanism."  The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.  104-141.

  • "Rhetoric and History."  Theories of History.  Papers read at the Clark Library Seminar, March 6, 1976 by Hayden White and Frank E. Manuel.  Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1978.  7-25.

  • "The Fictions of Factual Representation."  The Literature of Fact.  Ed. Angus Fletcher.  New York: Columbia UP, 1976.  21-44. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  121-134.

  • "The Absurdist Moment in Contemporary Literary Theory."  Contemporary Literature 17.3 (1976): 378-403;

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  261-282.

    • Directions for Criticism. Structuralism and its Alternatives.  Ed.  Murray Krieger and L. S. Dembo.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1977. 

  • "The Tropics of History: the Deep Structure of the New Science."  Giambattista Vico's Science of Humanity.  Ed. Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Donald Philip Verene.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1976.  65-85. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  197-217.

  • "The Noble Savage Theme as Fetish."  First Images of America: the Impact of the New World and the Old.  Ed. Fredi Chiappelli.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1976.  121-135. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  183-196.

  • "Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination."  Essays on Historicism.  Special Edition (Beiheft 14) of History and Theory 14.4 (1975): 48-67. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  101-120.

  • "The Problem of Change in Literary History."  New Literary History 7.1 (1975): 97-111.

  • "The Historical Text as Literary Artefact."  Clio 3.3 (1974): 277-303. 

    • The History and Narrative Reader.  Ed. Geoffrey Roberts.  London: Routledge, 2001.  221-236.

    • History and Theory: Contemporary Readings.  Ed. Brian Fay, Philip Pomper, and Richard T. Vann.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  15-33.

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  81-100.

    • Critical Theory Since 1965.  Ed. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1986.  395-409.

  • The Greco-Roman Tradition.  New York: Harper and Row, 1973.

  • Metahistory: the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1973.

  • "The Politics of Contemporary Philosophy of History."  Clio 3.1 (1973): 35-54.

  • "Foucault Decoded: Notes from Underground."  History and Theory 12.1 (1973): 23-54. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  230-260.

  • "Interpretation in History."  New Literary History 4.2 (1972): 281-314. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  51-80.

  • "The Forms of Wildness: Archaeology of an Idea."  The Wild Man Within: an Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism.  Ed. Edward Dudley and Maximillian E. Novak.  Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1972.  3-38. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  150-182.

  • "The Irrational and the Problem of Historical Knowledge."  Irrationalism in the Eighteenth Century.  Vol. 2.  Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.  Ed. Harold E. Pagliaro.  Cleveland: Case Western Reserve UP, 1972.  303-321. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  135-149.

  • "The Structure of Historical Narrative."  Clio 1.3 (1972): 5-20.

  • "The Culture of Criticism."  Liberations. New Essays on the Humanities Revolution.  Ed. Ihab Hassan.  Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1971.  55-69.

  • The Ordeal of Liberal Humanism: an Intellectual History of Western Europe.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

    • Since the French Revolution.  Vol. 2.  By White and Willson Coates.  1970.

    • From the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution.  Vol. 1.  By White, Willson Coates and J. Salwin Schapiro.  1966. 

  • "Literary History: the Point of It All."  New Literary History 2.1 (1970): 173-185.

  • "The Task of Intellectual History."  The Monist 53.4 (1969): 606-630.

  • "What is Living and What is Dead in Croce's Criticism of Vico."  Giambattista Vico: an International Symposium.  Ed. White and Giorgio Tagliacozzo.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1969. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  218-229.

  • "Romanticism, Historicism, and Realism: Toward a Period Concept for Early 19th Century Intellectual History."  The Uses of History: Essays in Intellectual and Social History.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1968.  45-58.

  • "Hegel: Historicism as Tragic Realism."  Colloquium 5.2 (1966): 10-19.

  • "The Burden of History."  History and Theory.  5.2 (1966): 111-134. 

    • Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.  27-50.

  • "The Abiding Relevance of Croce's Idea of History."  Journal of Modern History 35.2 (1963): 109-124. 

  • "Collingwood and Toynbee: Transitions in English Historical Thought."  English Miscellany.  7 (1956): 147-178.

• Selected Interviews:

• Translations:

  • Antoni, Carlo.  From History to Sociology: the Transition in German Historical Thinking.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1959.

    • "Translator's Preface."  IX-XII. 

    • Translator's Introduction: "On History and Historicism."  XV-XXVIII.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • History as Fulfillment Keynote Address, Tulane University, 1999

  • Historiography and Historiophoty American Historical Review 93.5 (1988) 1193-1199

• Selected Interviews:

  • The Aim of Interpretation is to Create Perplexity in the Face of the Real.  Interview with Erlend Rogne.  History and Theory 48 (2009)

  • Hayden White Talks Trash: Interview with Frederick Aldama Bad Subjects 55 (2001):

  • The Ironic Poetics of Late Modernity: Interview with Angelica Koufou and Margarita Miliori historein 2 (2000): .

  • The Image of Self-Presentation: Interview with Ewa Domanska Diacritics 24.1 (1994): .

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Ankersmit, F. R., Ewa Domanska, and Hans Kellner, eds.  Re-Figuring Hayden White.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2009.

  • Iggers, George, et al., eds.  Hayden White's Metahistory Twenty Years After.  Storia della Storiografia 23 (1993).

  • Korhonen, Kuisma, ed.  Tropes for the Past: Hayden White and the History / Literature Debate.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Day, Frank.  "Hayden White."  Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Detroit: Thomson Gale, .

  • Domanska,Ewa.  "Hayden White: Beyond Irony."  History and Theory 37.2 (1998): 173-181.

  • Jameson, Frederic.  "Figural Relativism, or the Poetics of Historiography."  Diacritics 6.1 (1976): 2-9.  

    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  153-166.

  • Kansteiner, Wulf.  “Hayden White's Critique of the Writing of History.”  History and Theory 32.3 (1993): 273–95.

  • LaCapra, Dominick.  "A Poetics of Historiography: Hayden White's Tropics of Discourse."  Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.  72-83.

  • Momigliano, Arnaldo. "The Rhetoric of History and the History of Rhetoric: On Hayden White's Tropes."  Comparative Criticism: a Yearbook 3 (1981): 259-68.

  • Roth, Paul A.  "Hayden White and the Aesthetics of Historiography."  History of the Human Sciences 5.1 (1992): 17-35.

On-Line:

• Domañska, Ewa: 

  • Hayden White Bibliography

  • Hayden White Bibliography (PreText version)

  • Hayden White: Beyond Irony

• Hilliard, K. F.: Hayden White for Absolute Beginners

• Kaufman, Alex: Hayden White

• Kellner, Hans: Hayden White (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Levisohn, Jon A.: Stories about Stories about History: Hayden White, Historiography, and History Education Philosophy of Education (2002)

• Rea, Vicki: Summary of Metahistory

• Sutermeister, Paul: Hayden White or History as Narrative: a Constructive Approach to Historiography

• Syracuse University: Summaries of Hayden White's Tropics of Discourse

• ThoughtJam: White on “Foucault Decoded: Notes from the Underground”

• Walker, Jonathan: Hayden White's Metahistory

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Hayden White

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