White ultimately attacks the notion that modern history texts present objective, accurate explanations of the past instead, he argues that historians and philosophers operate under unarticulated assumptions in arranging, selecting, and interpreting events. His books and essays analyze the narratives of nineteenth-and twentieth-century historians and philosophers, suggesting that historical discourse is a form of fiction that can be classified and studied on the basis of its structure and its use of language. White has made contributions to the philosophy of history and literary theory. Bossenbrook, who inspired several undergraduates who later went on to achieve academic distinction in the field of history, including White, H. While an undergraduate at Wayne State, White studied history under William J. degrees from the University of Michigan (19, respectively). from Wayne State University in 1951 and his M.A. He was professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and held position of professor of comparative literature at Stanford University.
Hayden White was a historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973).
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