{"product_id":"tropics-of-discourse-essays-in-the-contemporary-rhetoric-of-reading-9780801827419","title":"Tropics of Discourse  Essays in the Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike most of White's work, the book arises from a boldly imaginative transaction between the philosophy of history, literary criticism and semiotics. Notes and Queries No other historian appears to be at the frontier of so many developments or so skillful at integrating them into traditional American scholarship in the history of ideas. In this White seems a successor to A. O. Lovejoy and Ernst Cassirer. Journal of Modern History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Tropology, Discourse, and the Modes of Human Consciousness\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Burden of History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Interpretation in History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Historical Text as Literary Artifact\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Fictions of Factual Representation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Irrational and the Problem of Historical Knowledge in the Enlightenment \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Forms of Wildness: Archaeology of an Idea\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Noble Savage Theme as Fetish\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Tropics of History: The Deep Structure of the \u003ci\u003eNew Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. What is Living and What is Dead in Croce's Criticism of Vico\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Foucault Decoded: Notes from Underground\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The Absurdist Moment in Contemporary Literary Theory\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865923465559,"sku":"9780801827419","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801827419.jpg?v=1722276217","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tropics-of-discourse-essays-in-the-contemporary-rhetoric-of-reading-9780801827419","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}