Between Poetry and History: a Study of Hayden White's Theory of Historical Poetics
by Wang Xia
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Hayden White is a famous contemporary historical philosopher, literary critic, and cultural historian in the United States. He is one of the representatives of New Historicism. His theory of historical poetics advocates the poetic construction of history and breaks the disciplinary boundaries between history and literature. He has attracted much attention from domestic and foreign academic circles. Based on sorting out and analyzing the main content and academic context of Hayden White's theory of historical poetics, this book combines the texts of American sinologist Shi Jingqian and the case of the Nazi Holocaust to analyze White's historical textualism and historical relativism from the perspective of debate, and then discusses White's theoretical contributions, hoping to promote the current research on Hayden White and promote the proliferation of his ideas.
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