Fiction of Narrative

<p>Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph <em>Metahistory</em> in 1973 White's work has been crucial to disciplines where narrative is of primary concern including history literary studies anthropology philosophy art history and film and media studies.</p><p>This volume deftly introduced by Robert Doran gathers in one place White's important--and often hard-to-find--essays exploring his revolutionary theories of historical writing and narrative. These texts find White at his most essayistic engaging a wide range of topics and thinkers with characteristic insight and elegance.</p><p><em>The Fiction of Narrative</em> traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography the theory of history and literary studies.</p>