Hayden White

Acknowledgments.
<p>Introduction: How to Read Hayden White.</p>
<p>White′s Achievement.</p>
<p>White′s Reputation.</p>
<p>White′s Questions.</p>
<p>Reinterpreting White.</p>
<p>Structure of the Book.</p>
<p>1. Humanist Historicism: The Italian White.</p>
<p>The Papal Schism of 1130.</p>
<p>White′s Covering Law Model.</p>
<p>"Ideology" or "Value Orientation".</p>
<p>The Disenchantment of the World.</p>
<p>From Historicism to Sociology.</p>
<p>A Croce Partisan.</p>
<p>Questions In/About History.</p>
<p>2. Liberation Historiography: The Politics of History.</p>
<p>Why History?</p>
<p>Choosing a Past.</p>
<p>Strong Humanist Father Figures.</p>
<p>Social Conditions of Freedom.</p>
<p>In Defense of Metahistory.</p>
<p>A Philosophy of Liberation.</p>
<p>3. The Historical Imagination: Four Modes of Realism.</p>
<p>An Inverted Disciplinary History.</p>
<p>Escaping the Ironist′s Cage.</p>
<p>Imagination: Thinking and Dreaming.</p>
<p>A Manual of Tropology.</p>
<p>Structuralist Linguistics.</p>
<p>The Freedom of Imagination.</p>
<p>White′s Linguistic Turn.</p>
<p>4. The Power of Discourse: White′s Structuralist Adventure.</p>
<p>Three Modes of Comprehension.</p>
<p>Figurative Language.</p>
<p>Fictions of Factual Representation.</p>
<p>Objectivism and Relativism.</p>
<p>The Prison–House of Language.</p>
<p>Getting Out of History.</p>
<p>5. Masks of Meaning: Facing the Sublime.</p>
<p>The Content of the Form.</p>
<p>Stories Are Not Lived But Told.</p>
<p>Sublime Historical Reality.</p>
<p>The Specter of Fascism.</p>
<p>Modernist Anti–Narrativism.</p>
<p>6. Figuring History: The Modernist White.</p>
<p>Modernist Events.</p>
<p>Intransitive Writing.</p>
<p>A Turning Point?</p>
<p>Figural Realism.</p>
<p>The Practical Past.</p>
<p>Epilogue.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Index.</p>