Biography : a brief history /
For what purpose and for whom has biographical pursuit endured, and how does it play such a contested, popular role in contemporary Western culture, from biopics to blogs, memoirs to docudramas? Award-winning biographer Hamilton addresses these questions in an incisive and vivid narrative that will...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Evolutionary biography
- Hagiography
- The renaissance of biography
- Victorian pseudobiography
- The early twentieth century
- The rise of film
- The people's war
- Death of the author
- New directions
- Biography comes of age
- Biography on trial
- The miner's canary
- Biography today.