POETICS OF HISTORICAL WRITING
Eds. Ewa Domańska, Marek Wilczyński
Hayden White has belonged for decades to a narrow circle of the most outstanding scholars in the world of humanities. The selection of his works presented here contains his most commented on and most influential short essays and sketches. They raise various issues – encompassing philosophy, history, criticism of historiography, text theory, problems of interpretation and criticism, the rhetoric of discourse, questions of reality and fiction, as well as representation, narration, figurative language, etc. One can find a bold discussion of the most important problems in the theory of historiography, pertaining to the relationships between history and literature, principles in the interpretation of historical texts, and the importance of narration when representing past reality.

133x205 mm, paperback, 392 p.