

Marcus, eds., Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley, 1986) Wallace Martin, Recent Theories of Narrative (Ithaca. Danto, Narration and Knowledge: Including the Integral Text of Analytical Philosophy of History (New York, 1985) James Clifford and George E. Texts, Contexts, Language (Ithaca, 1983) Arthur C. Kathleen Blarney and David Pellauer Dominick LaCapra, Rethinking Intellectual History. Theory and Criticism after Structuralism (Ithaca, 1982) Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory An Introduction (Minneapolis, 1983) Paul Ricocur, Time and Narrative (3 vols., Chicago, 1984, 1985, 1988), trans. On Narrative (Chicago, 1981) Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca, 1981) Jonathan Culler On Deconstruction. Canary and Henry Kozicki, eds., The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding (Madison, 1978) W. Dray, Philosophy of History (Englewood Cliffs, 1964) Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, The Natureof Narrative (New York, 1966) Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (NewYork, 1967) Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Baltimore,1973) Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse: Essalt in Cultural Criticism (Baltimore, 1978) Robert H.

Among the works that helped shape my views on the importance and problems of narrative are the following: William H.

Much of the reading that lies behind this essay cannot easily be attached to a single argument or footnote. see the collection of essays in Great Plains Quarterly 6 (Spring 1986).įor a wide-ranging discussion that explores the emerging intellectual agendas of environmental history See “A Round Table: Environmental History”. 1979): Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (New York, 1979). Paul Bonnifield, The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression (Albuquerque.
