Biography in Theory : Key Texts with Commentaries /
This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21st centuries, the reader includes programmatic texts by authors such as Herder, Carlyle, Dilthey, Proust, Freud, Kracauer, Woolf and Bourdieu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2017]
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Colección: | De Gruyter textbook.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction Theory of Biography or Biography in Theory?
- The Rambler 60 (13 October 1750)
- The Idler 24 (24 November 1759)
- Samuel Johnson's Advice to Biographers
- Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity (1793)
- The Living Memory of Biography: Johann Gottfried Herder's 'Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity'
- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History [Extract] (1840)
- World History as Heroic Biography: Thomas Carlyle's 'Great Men'
- Plan for the Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences [Extract] [1904-10]
- Between Art and Academia: Wilhelm Dilthey's Theory of Biography
- The Method of Sainte-Beuve [Extract] [1909]
- Against Biographical Interpretation: Marcel Proust's Attack on Sainte-Beuve
- Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood [Extract] (1910)
- The Riddles of Sigmund Freud's Leonardo
- Biography, Case History, or ...?
- Preface to Eminent Victorians (1918)
- Biography as Exposure: Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians
- Literature and Biography (1923)
- In Search of the Literary Fact: Boris Tomashevsky and the Limits of the Biographical Approach
- The Biography of the Object (1929)
- In the Name of the Collective: Sergei Tretiakov's Plea for a Biography of the Object
- The Biography as an Art Form of the New Bourgeoisie (1930)
- How to Make Employees Matter: Siegfried Kracauer's Critique of Biography
- The New Biography (1927)
- The Art of Biography (1939)
- The Biographical Craft: Virginia Woolf's Contributions to the Theory of Biography
- History as a Poetess (1943)
- Biography between Poetry and History: Stefan Zweig's 'History as a Poetess'
- The Progressive-Regressive Method [Extract] (1957)
- Tracing the 'projet original': Jean-Paul Sartre's Biographical Hermeneutics
- Dieses Kapitel ist in der digitalen Ausgabe leider nicht verfügbar.
- A Life in Memory Fragments: Roland Barthes's 'Biographemes'
- 'Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners': Ethnobiographical Prospects (1978)
- Provincializing the Biographical Subject: James Clifford's Manifesto for a 'Less Centred' Biography
- Landscape for a Good Woman [Extract] (1986)
- Intersectional Biography: Class, Gender, and Genre in Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman
- The Biographical Illusion (1986)
- Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu's 'The Biographical Illusion' (1986)
- Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past [Extract] (1989)
- Things Mean Differently at Different Historical Moments: Re-thinking (Literary) History and Biography
- Post-Thomas Edison (Recalling an Anti-Biography) (2003)
- From 'Anti-Biography' to Online Biography?
- Approaching Celebrity Studies [Extract] (2010)
- Biography and Celebrity Studies
- List of Sources
- Editorial Note
- Select Bibliography
- List of Contributors.