 | John E. O'Connor, Peter Rollins - 2005 - 404 pages
...be filled with different contents, real or imaginary," writes White, historical narrative "already possesses a content prior to any given actualization of it in speech or writing" (xi). History, then, is not separate from or, in its alleged objectivity, opposed to cultural production;... | |
 | Claire Moon - 2008 - 192 pages
...elicit meaning from their place within the moral order that reconciliation (as closure) institutes. Narrative 'possesses a content prior to any given actualization of it in speech or writing, or rather a "content of the form'" (White, 1987: ix), and it is this feature that secures its ideological... | |
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White helps clarify the centrality of the "content of the form" and its difference from such conventional notions as style: "[Narrative, far from being merely a form of discourse that can be filled with different contents, real or imaginary as the case... 
