White Hayden Tropics of Discourse

White Hayden Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism: The Johns Hopkins University Press.-Baltimore and London, 1978.- 282 p.Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Tropology, Discourse, and the Modes of
Human Consciousness 1
1 The Burden of History 27
2 Interpretation in History 51
3 The Historical Text as Literary Artifact 81
4 Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination 101
5 The Fictions of Factual Representation 121
6 The Irrational and the Problem of Historical Knowledge in
the Enlightenment 135
7 The Forms of Wildness: Archaeology of an Idea 150
8 The Noble Savage Theme as Fetish 183
9 The Tropics of History: The Deep Structure of the New
Science 197
10 What Is Living and What Is Dead in Croce's Criticism
ofVico 218
11 Foucault Decoded: Notes from Underground 230
12 The Absurdist Moment in Contemporary Literary Theory 261
Index 283