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" asks, Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of wellmade stories, with central subjects, proper beginnings, middles, and ends, and a coherence that permits us to see "the end "
The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art - Page 16
by Jonathan Gilmore - 2000 - 157 pages
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Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

Hugh J. Silverman, Don Ihde - 1985 - 326 pages
...events are properly represented when they can be shown to display the formal coherency of a story?” 7 ‘Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of welimade stories. . . ? Or does it present itself more in the way that the annals and chronicles suggest,...
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Time, Narrative, and History

David Carr - 1991 - 204 pages
...events are properly represented when they are shown to display the formal coherency of a story?" 27 "Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of well-made stories . . . ? Or does it pre24. Carl G. Hempel, "The Function of General Laws in History," The Journal of...
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The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

Hayden White - 1990 - 264 pages
...the stories we tell about imaginary events could only have its origin in wishes, daydreams, reveries. Does the world really present itself to perception...permits us to see “the end” in every beginning? Or does it present itself more in the forms that the annals and chronicle suggest, either as mere sequence...
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On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation

David Wood - 1991 - 224 pages
...events are properly represented when they can be shown to display the formal coherency of a story?' 7 Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of well-made stories . . . ? Or does it present itself more in the way that the annals and chronicles suggest, either as...
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The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century ...

Shirley Samuels - 1992 - 358 pages
...narrative is of course an artificial construct, for, as Hayden White has observed, the world does not just "present itself to perception in the form of well-made...central subjects, proper beginnings, middles, and ends." 2 Any narrative of the Lucretia Chapman story involves a fictive process that unavoidably imposes some...
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Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism

Tobin Siebers - 1993 - 180 pages
...coherence, integrity, fullness, and closure of an image of life that is and can only be imaginary. . . . Does the world really present itself to perception...that permits us to see 'the end' in every beginning? Or does it present itself ... as mere sequence without beginning or end or as sequences of beginnings...
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The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History

Richard Wightman Fox, T. J. Jackson Lears - 1993 - 308 pages
...account—even the allegedly "nonfictional"—is an artificial construct, for the world does not just "present itself to perception in the form of well-made...central subjects, proper beginnings, middles, and ends." 1 Any narrative of murder involves a fictive process which reveals much about the mental and emotional...
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The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History

Richard Wightman Fox, T. J. Jackson Lears - 1993 - 302 pages
...account—even the allegedly "nonfictional"—is an artificial construct, for the world does not just "present itself to perception in the form of well-made...central subjects, proper beginnings, middles, and ends." 1 Any narrative of murder involves a fictive process which reveals much about the mental and emotional...
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The Art of Biblical History

V. Philips Long - 1994 - 252 pages
...beginnings, middles and ends. . . . Narrative qualities are transferred from art to life”) and Hayden White (“Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of 32 Nature, pp. 143—44. Similarly, Axtell (“History as Imagination,” p. 458) writes: “Since...
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Congressional Serial Set

1996 - 1104 pages
...the stories we tell about imaginary events could only have its origin in wishes, daydreams, reveries. Does the world really present itself to perception...that permits us to see "the end" in every beginning? Or does it present itself more in the forms that the annals and chronicle suggest, either as mere sequence...
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