History as a Crazy House: Norman Mailer, Hayden White, and the Representation of a Modernist Event

2006 ◽  
pp. 135-150
Keyword(s):  
Norman Mailer ◽  
Hayden White

“It all boils down to a question of words”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McNaughton
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Authoritarian Politics ◽  
Hayden White

The Unnamable confronts inherited narrative and linguistic forms with the incommensurability of recent genocide. Initially, the book performs this inadequacy by confronting novel tropes with distorted images cribbed from memoirs of Mauthausen concentration camp. Then it updates surrealist treatments of Parisian abattoirs, asking whether industrialized slaughter is also the sign and fulfillment of modern genocide. The Unnamable also confuses literary production and the biopolitical aspirations of authoritarian politics: Beckett’s narrator writes from a conviction that language can become wholly performative and has the capacity to incarnate and to kill. The narrator attempts to deconstruct language, but doing so ironically transcends literary and philosophical problems to reveal historiographical problems as well, the missing voices of those killed without trace. The chapter ends with a theoretical coda that productively contextualizes Beckett’s strategy with historiographical debate about narrative and genocide by Paul Ricoeur, Giorgio Agamben, Hayden White, and others.

THE RECEPTIONS OF ELIE HALEVY’SLA FORMATION DU RADICALISME PHILOSOPHIQUEIN ENGLAND AND FRANCE

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREG CONTI ◽  
CHERYL WELCH
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
Hayden White ◽  
Literary Classics ◽  
History And Theory

That Elie Halévy'sThe Growth of Philosophical Radicalismis a classic text of history and theory is a judgment repeated too often to be in doubt. But what makes it a classic? The most obvious sign—that it is widely recommended as a standard work in its field generations after its publication—raises the question of why and how a text becomes a leading work or “master” piece. Literary classics are sometimes said to fuse style, substance, and significance in a mysterious alchemy that continues to stimulate thought beyond the original context. Similarly, discussions of historical works that enlarge the imagination sometimes center on the literary qualities of these texts. Most famously, Hayden White dwells on their allegedly fruitful exploitation of a preexisting “linguistic protocol” such as tragedy or irony. White also notes, however, that a necessary condition for any work of history to resonate powerfully with its audience is that readers are subconsciously prepared to be moved by it.

Norman Mailer

1998 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
John Whalen-Bridge ◽  
Michael K. Glenday
Keyword(s):  
Norman Mailer

Problems and Perspectives of Methodological Reflection (Using H. White, F. Braudel, and P. Bourdieu's Works as Examples)

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8 (106)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Matvey Iakovlev
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
The Future ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
Hayden White ◽  
Methodological Reflection ◽  
Fernand Braudel

The article deals with the problem of analyzing the methodology of historical research. The author dwells on three possible strategies of such an analysis, going back to the concepts of Hayden White, Pierre Bourdieu, and Fernand Braudel. All three concepts belong to the second half of the 20th century, a period when methodological reflection was actively developing, and although the theory of history has moved on since then, the author believes that an analysis of the classical works will make it possible to create a better methodological map on their basis in the future. The author believes that the problems of methodological reflexion raised in the article stimulate discussions about the methodology of historical research and the ways of its analysis.

scholarly journals Blank Verse: a história e as histórias de William Shakespeare traduzidas em websérie

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-421
Author(s):  
Manoela Sarubbi Henares Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Hayden White

Blank Verse é uma web série que retrata William Shakespeare e outras figuras históricas do período elisabetano reimaginados como estudantes e professores universitários nos dias atuais. Através de vídeos curtos e postagens em redes sociais, acompanhamos os personagens em suas jornadas como escritores iniciantes num contexto altamente mediado pela tecnologia. A mescla criativa de elementos históricos, biográficos e ficcionais provocaram as reflexões apresentadas neste artigo. A partir do pensamento de teóricos da literatura como Josefina Ludmer e Flora Süssekind; História, como Pierre Nora e Hayden White; e Filosofia, tal qual Roland Barthes e Friedrich Nietzsche, este texto explora o desmantelamento das fronteiras entre verdade e ficção, real e virtual, todos eles produtos da mesma ferramenta: a linguagem.Palavras-chave: William Shakespeare. Literatura. História. Biografia. Ficção.

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