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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Aufsatzsammlung |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter France |
ISBN: | 9780197263181 0197263186 |
OCLC Number: | 779499473 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2002. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | The Proper Study? ; Gender, Biography, and the Public Sphere ; From Biography to Hagiography: Some Stable Patterns in the Greek and Latin Tradition of Lives, including Lives of the Saints ; Biography and Autobiography in the Italian Renaissance ; National Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin Matthew ; From Eulogy to Biography: The French Academic Eloge ; Adding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German Biography ; Shaping Victorian Biography: From Anecdote to Bildungsroman ; Sainte-Beuve: Biography, Criticism and the Literary ; Yury Tynyanov and the 'Literary Fact' ; Freud and the Art of Biography ; The Newness of the 'New Biography': Biographical Theory and Practice in the Early Twentieth Century ; The Biographer as Archaeologist ; Writing Lives Forwards: A Case for Strictly Chronological Biography ; Shaping the Truth ; Sartre's Existential Biographies: A Search for a Method ; A Life on Film ; 'The Solace of Doubt'? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century |
Responsibility: | ed. by Peter France, William St. Clair. |
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Review from previous edition Absorbing and informative * Times Literary Supplement 30/08/02 * An impressive collection of essays, some by well-known practitioners * The Economist 13/12/02 *

