Modern Language Quarterly 

About: Modern Language Quarterly is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Poetry & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0026-7929. Over the lifetime, 2703 publications have been published receiving 19580 citations. The journal is also known as: MLQ.

Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (review)

Abstract: \"Hayden White...is the most prominent American scholar to unite historiography and literary criticism into a broader reflection on narrative and cultural understanding.\" --'The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism' In his earlier books such as 'Tropics of Discourse' and 'The Content of the Form', Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In 'Figural Realism', White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. \"'History' is not only an object we can study,\" writes White, \"it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediated by a distinctive kind of written discourse. It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography.\