ABOUT THIS BOOK

“This may well be the most important contribution to the linguistically informed study of historiography since Hayden White’s Metahistory. Looking at historical texts, Kellner is able to show us that they are more complex, and bear a more complicated relationship to reality, than we think. His scholarship is not only sound but is on the cutting edge or recent reflection on historiography. . . . The insights, not rarely, are stunning.”—Allan Megill, University of Iowa

REVIEWS

“Kellner’s range of knowledge is truly impressive, and his arguments are consistently provocative. His insights into the ‘other’ sources of writing—the multiple articulations of language that cannot be reduced to unmediated documented evidence or the logic of transparent representations—should be of interest to historians, literary critics, and all serious students of culture.”—Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One: The Other Sources: History and Language

1. The Deepest Respect for Reality

2. Time Out: The Discontinuity of Historical Consciousness

3. Boundaries of the Text: History as Passage

Part Two: The Language of Historians: Four Shipwrecks

4. Guizot and the Poets

5. Narrating the "Tableau": Questions of Narrativity in Michelet

6. Figures in the Rumpelkammer: Goethe, Faust, Spengler

7. Disorderly Conduct: Braudel's Mediterranean Satire

Part Three: Tropology and Narrativity

8. A Bedrock of Order: Hayden White's Linguistic Humanism

9. The Inflatable Trope as Narrative Theory: Structure or Allegory?

10. Tropology Versus Narrativity: Freud and the Formalists

Part Four: Allegory and Anxiety

11. Triangular Anxieties: The Present State of European Intellectual History

12. Narrativity in History: Post-Structuralism and Since

Conclusion

Index

REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE

If you are a student who cannot use this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access.

Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.

It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled.