Mapping Lives

The Uses of Biography

AvFrance,Peter France

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Del i serien British Academy Centenary Monographs

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Beskrivning

Why biography? This collection of essays on the problems and functions of biography, and particularly the biography of writers, thinkers and artists, investigates a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture and society. In the last century, it has been a controversial subject, as old models of biographical writing were attacked and superseded, while critics and theorists questioned the once self-evident value of the biography of writers. Yet the genre continues to attract notable authors and is unfailingly popular with readers.The present volume, while containing essays by practising biographers, is intended primarily as a stimulus to critical thinking. It focuses on the diverse functions assumed by life-writing in different European countries at different periods, challenging both the notion of a genre with constant characteristics and aims and the view of modern biography as the happy culmination of centuries of progress.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-09-23
Mått:157 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:550 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:British Academy Centenary Monographs
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780197263181

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur

Recensioner i media

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

Innehållsförteckning

The Proper Study?Gender, Biography, and the Public SphereFrom Biography to Hagiography: Some Stable Patterns in the Greek and Latin Tradition of Lives, including Lives of the SaintsBiography and Autobiography in the Italian RenaissanceNational Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin MatthewFrom Eulogy to Biography: The French Academic ElogeAdding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German BiographyShaping Victorian Biography: From Anecdote to BildungsromanSainte-Beuve: Biography, Criticism and the LiteraryYury Tynyanov and the 'Literary Fact'Freud and the Art of BiographyThe Newness of the 'New Biography': Biographical Theory and Practice in the Early Twentieth CenturyThe Biographer as ArchaeologistWriting Lives Forwards: A Case for Strictly Chronological BiographyShaping the TruthSartre's Existential Biographies: A Search for a MethodA Life on Film'The Solace of Doubt'? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century