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Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies, specifically by connecting biography with microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing
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monografia Rebiun28050878 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun28050878 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 140515s2014 ne a ob 001 0 eng d 882257068 890434892 960201982 961571449 972041137 976447146 980831826 987458355 988436541 992077167 1018054359 1037692209 1048740910 1053486785 1055379838 1066589830 1081261534 1089141479 1100563359 1101730425 1109369243 1165166121 1166175675 1167602032 1179900514 1228599131 9789004274709 electronic bk.) 9004274707 electronic bk.) 9780773417519 0773417516 9789004270145 9004270140 10.1163/9789004274709. doi 1114548 Proquest Ebook Central MHW eng pn MHW EBLCP IDEBK N$T FHM OCLCO OCLCQ YDXCP ZCU E7B OCLCQ COO DXU OCLCA OCLCQ LOA OCLCQ AGLDB LVT BUB ICA MOR PIFAG MERUC OCLCQ U3W D6H STF OCLCF VTS ICG INT VT2 OCLCQ WYU LEAUB DKC PLDHI OCLCQ M8D UX1 OCLCQ HS0 UWK LUN AJS OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ BIO 006000 bisacsh BIO 026000 bisacsh BIO 010000 bisacsh BIO 011000 bisacsh BIO 012000 bisacsh BIO 013000 bisacsh BIO 014000 bisacsh CT lcco HB. bicssc Theoretical discussions of biography approaches from history, microhistory, and life writing edited by Hans Renders and Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton Rev. and augmented ed Leiden BRILL ©2014 Leiden Leiden BRILL 1 online resource (xix, 273 pages) illustrations (some color) 1 online resource (xix, 273 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Egodocuments and history series v. 7 Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: The challenges of biography studies -- Towards traditions and nations -- Roots of biography: From journalism to pulp to scholarly based non-fiction -- The solace of doubt? Biographical methodology after the short twentieth century -- The uses of biography -- The role of the individual in history: Biographical and historical writing in the nineteenth and twentieth century -- Contemporary values of life: Biographical dictionaries in the nineteenth century -- What is micro in microhistory? -- Microhistory and the post-modern challenge -- The limits of representativeness: Biography, life writing, and microhistory -- Microhistory: Two or three things that I know about it -- Biography in academia and the critical frontier in life writing: Where biography shifts into life writing -- The eclipse of biography in life writing -- Coming to terms: Life writing, from genre to critical practice -- Biography -- Sex in biography -- The personal in the political biography -- The biographical method -- Why genealogy and biography are not kin -- A Nobel prize for biography Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies, specifically by connecting biography with microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing English Biography as a literary form Biography- Philosophy Historiography Microhistory Autobiography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Historical. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Personal Memoirs. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Political. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Presidents & Heads of State. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Reference. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Rich & Famous. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Royalty. Autobiography. Biography as a literary form. Historiography. Microhistory. Electronic books Renders, Hans Haan, Binne de Print version 9789004270145 Egodocuments and history series v. 7