Hayden White has made many contributions to literary criticism, however, here are what I believe to be the most important.
1) Hayden believes that the techniques and strategies that historians and imaginative writers use in the composition of their discourses can be shown to be extremely similar. Essentially his opinion is that the writing of history is a poetic act and that historians and poets have "mutual implicativeness" in their respective techniques of composition, description, imitation, narration, and demonstration.
2) They key words to remember for Hayden White are "Master Tropes." He believes that Master tropes are the basis-the mode of consciousness-for all interpretation; and they resonate with modes of representing the world:
1. Metaphor
2. Metonymy
3. Synecdoche
4. Irony
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment