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Writing biographies for a long time had been a male hegemonic project. Ever since Plutarch and Sueton composed their vitae of the greats of classical antiquity, to the medieval obsession with the hagiographies of holy men (and a few women) and saints, Vasari's lives of great Renaissance artists...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bischof, Günter, 1953-, Plasser, Fritz, 1948-, Maltschnig, Eva, 1987-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press. 2012.
New Orleans : UNO Press,
Colección:Contemporary Austrian studies ; v. 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Günter Bischof – Introduction – Biographical narrative between truth and lies, production and authenticity / Bernhard Fetz – Political lives – Ignaz Seipel (1876-1932) : founding father of the Austrian Republic / John Deak – Otto Bauer (1881-1938) : politician and public intellectual / Ernst Hanisch – “Against the mock battle of words” : Therese Schlesinger, neé Eckstein (1863-1940), a radical seeker / Gabriella Hauch – Thinking cosmopolitan or how Joseph became Joe Buttinger / Philipp Luis Strobl – From the Habsburg Empire to the Third Reich : Arthur Seß-Inquart and national socialism / Johannes Koll – A century in a lifetime : biographical approaches to Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990) / Elisabeth Röhrlich – Alois Mock : pioneer of European unity / Martin Eichtinger and Helmut Wohnout – Lives of the mind – “Genia” Schwarzwald and her Viennese “salon” / Deborah Holmes – Where Hitler’s name is never spoken : Günther Anders in 1950s Vienna / Jason Dawsey – Viktor Frankl : the inside outsider / Timothy Pytell – Wolfgang Kraus : impresario of Austrian literature and cold warrior / Stefan Maurer – Common lives – Torn apart between time and space? A collective biography of Austro-Hungarian military personnel on the Eastern Front, 1914-1918 / Wolfram Dornik – Ordinary Austrians : common war criminals during World War II / Winfried R. Garscha – Lives behind barbed wire : a comparative view of Austrian prisoners of war during and after World War II in Soviet and American captivity / Günter Bischof and Barbara Stelzl-Marx – The photographic glaze : Austrian visual lives during the Occupation Decade : a cross-section of ordinary Austrians photographed by American and Austrian artists / Hans Petschar and Herbert Friedlmeier – Balancing between autonomy and dependence : family farming and agrarian change in Lower Austria, 1945-1980 / Ernst Langthaler – Attitudinal lives : a survey of Austrian students attitudes towards Muslims and Jews, Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung and World War II, and democratic dispositions / Petra Ziegler [and others] – Book review – Annual review.