Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory, and life writing
edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton
Bok Engelsk 2014
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| Utgitt | Leiden : BRILL , 2014.
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| Omfang | 273 s. : ill.
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| Utgave | rev. and augmented ed.
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| Opplysninger | Innhold: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on the Revised and Augmented Edition; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies; Section 1:Historiography of Biography Studies; 2 Towards Traditions and Nations; 3 Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction; 4 The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century; Section 2: Biography and History; 5 The Uses of Biography 6 The Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century7 Contemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century; Section 3: Biography and Microhistory; 8 What Is Micro in Microhistory?; 9 Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge; 10 The Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory; 11 Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It; Section 4: Biography and Life Writing 12 Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing13 The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing; 14 Coming to Terms: Life Writing - from Genre to Critical Practice; Appendices; 15 Biography; 16 Sex in Biography; 17 The Personal in the Political Biography; 18 The Biographical Method; 19 Why Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin; 20 A Nobel Prize for Biography; Bibliography; Index
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| Emner | Biografi
Biografier Historiografi Autobiography. Vis mer... Biography -- Philosophy.
Biography as a literary form. Historiography. Microhistory |
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| ISBN | 978-90-04-27014-5
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