by Hayden White · Johns Hopkins University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780801817618
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«Metahistory» is Hayden White's essay on the theory of history, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in paperback (448 pages, in English).
White analyzes historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe and argues that beneath the surface of every historical text lies a latent poetic and linguistic content. This metahistorical level determines which form of historical explanation is appropriate.
Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition; the work was originally published in 1973 and includes an index and bibliography.
For students and researchers of historiography, theory of history, and philosophy of language applied to historical discourse.
Hayden V. White was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism. He wrote Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe in 1973.
