Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism

About this book

Tropics of Discourse develops Whites ideas on interpretation in history on the relationship between history and the novel and on history and historicism. Vico Croce Derrida and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. Whites commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.