Full name: Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism

Author: Hayden White Year: 1978 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Philosophy, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780801827419 0801827418

Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism. Similar books: From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing The Life of Greece by Will Durant The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee The Renaissance by Will Durant Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant The Dominion of the Dead by Robert Pogue Harrison The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson The Historian's Craft by Marc Bloch The Life-Giving Sword by Yagyu Munenori The Machine in the Garden by Leo Marx The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern Facing The Extreme by Tzvetan Todorov The Writing of the Disaster by Maurice Blanchot The Dialectics of Seeing by Susan Buck-Morss Stoicism by John Sellars The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault American Nietzsche by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen In Defense of History by Richard J. Evans