History and Literature: An Interview with Hayden White

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Published: Apr 11, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16216
Keywords:
Hayden White modernism postmodernism historiography
Angeliki Spiropoulou
University of Peloponnese
Hayden White
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Author Biographies
Angeliki Spiropoulou, University of Peloponnese
Angeliki Spiropoulou is Assistant Professor of Modern European Literature and Theory at the University of the Peloponnese, and a Visiting Research Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has published on English and European modernism, gender, modernity, history, and critical theory, especially Walter Benjamin. She is author of Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010); editor of Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity(Alexandreia, 2007); and co-editor of Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Rereading Texts (Peter Lang, 2002), and Contemporary Greek Fiction: International Crossings (Alexandreia, 2002). She has also co-edited a special issue on ‘Gender Resistance’for the European Journal of English Studies (2012), and has recently contributed to encyclopedias of modernism (Routledge, Edinburgh UP, Sage) and the volume, 1922: History, Culture, Politics (Cambridge UP).
Hayden White
Ηayden White, formerly a Bonsall Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University and an Emeritus Professor of History of Consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz. Among many other awards, he is an elected Fellow to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has recently published on historical fiction, modernism, witness literature, and Holocaust representation. His groundbreaking book Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Johns Hopkins UP, 1973; 40th anniversary edition, 2015), strongly contributed to the ‘narrative turn’ in historical studies. Among his numerous  publications are: Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Johns Hopkins UP, 1978); The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Johns Hopkins UP, 1987); Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (Johns Hopkins  UP, 1999); The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory 1957-2007,  ed. by Robert Doran (Johns Hopkins U P, 2010); and, more recently, The Practical Past (Northwestern UP, 2015). His work has been translated into many languages and forms a basic part of curricula in the humanities world-wide.
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