TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Hayden V.
TI  - Tropics of discourse: essays in cultural criticism 
SN  - 0801821274
AV  - D13 .W566
PY  - 1978///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Historiography
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Literature and history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Tropology, discourse, and the modes of human consciousness --; The burden of history --; Interpretation in history --; The historical text as literary artifact --; Historicism, history, and the figurative imagination --; The fictions of factual representation --; The irrational and the problem of historical knowledge in the Enlightenment --; The forms of wildness: archaeology of an idea --; The noble savage theme as fetish --; The tropics of history: the deep structure of the New science --; What is living and what is dead in Croce's criticism of Vico --; Foucault decoded: notes from underground --; The absurdist moment in contemporary literary theory
ER  -