The Practical Past PDF book is popular History book written by Hayden White. The book was released by Northwestern University Press on 2014-09-30 with total hardcover pages 135. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Practical Past by Hayden White in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and literary-art
This new book offers a clear and accessible exposition of Hayden White's thought. In an engaging and wide-ranging analysis, Herman Paul discusses White's core i
This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use literary techniques to write sophisticated historical works.
In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically lingu
For students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies, Robert Doran (French and comparative literature, U. of Rochester) gath