Baltimore: icant developments or even departures with refer- Johns Hopkins University Press. The Content of the Form: Narrative simply indicate what would seem to be some signif- Discourse and Historical Representation. It is impossible to dojustice to the richness of White's reflections in a short review. The American Historical Review Oxford University Press Tropics ofDiscourse was a collection being "unique among nineteenth-century tracts on of essays that played significant variations on those historical thinking inasmuch as it openly embraces thematic principles. inent in his essay on Droysen, which is subtitled Metahistory took the form of a systematic treatise that "Historica) Writing as a Bourgeois Science." Some- laid down the principles for Hayden White's poetics what ironically, White praises Droysen's Historik as of historiography. In partial contrast to his well-known earlier em- phasis on the conditioning if not determining role of The present book might be considered the third tropes, White's recent insistence on the axial role of part of a trilogy whose two earlier installments were ideology in the writing of history is especially prom- Metahistory (1973) and Tropics of Discourse (1978).
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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