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| Author | : Wilhelm Hemecker |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2017-08-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110516675 |
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. Each text is accompanied by a commentary placing its contribution in critical context. Ideal for use in undergraduate seminars, this reader may also be of interest for academic researchers in the areas of literary studies and history aiming to get an overview of historical questions in biographical theory. This revised and updated English language edition also includes new translations of texts by J. G. Herder and Stefan Zweig, as well as an introductory discussion on the possibility of a ‘theory of biography’. Note: Due to copyright reasons, the chapter "Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971)" (pp. 175–177) by Roland Barthes could not be included in the ebook.
| Author | : Wilhelm Hemecker |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2017-08-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110516691 |
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. Each text is accompanied by a commentary placing its contribution in critical context. Ideal for use in undergraduate seminars, this reader may also be of interest for academic researchers in the areas of literary studies and history aiming to get an overview of historical questions in biographical theory. This revised and updated English language edition also includes new translations of texts by J. G. Herder and Stefan Zweig, as well as an introductory discussion on the possibility of a ‘theory of biography’. Note: Due to copyright reasons, the chapter "Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971)" (pp. 175–177) by Roland Barthes could not be included in the ebook.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2021-11-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9004498893 |
In historiography, many interesting theoretical perspectives on biography have emerged in recent years, from forensics to structure and microhistory. Biographers themselves, though, often fear the study of the genre - needlessly, as these eighteen engaging new essays demonstrate.
| Author | : Stefan Müller-Doohm |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 828 |
| Release | : 2015-10-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0745694640 |
'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biography ranges across the whole of Adorno's life and career, from his childhood and student years to his years in emigration in the United States and his return to postwar Germany. At the same time, Muller-Doohm examines the full range of Adorno's writings on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, music theory and cultural criticism. Drawing on an array of sources from Adorno's personal correspondence with Horkheimer, Benjamin, Berg, Marcuse, Kracauer and Mann to interviews, notes and both published and unpublished writings, Muller-Doohm situates Adorno's contributions in the context of his times and provides a rich and balanced appraisal of his significance in the 20th Century as a whole. Müller-Doohm's clear prose succeeds in making accessible some of the most complex areas of Adorno's thought. This outstanding biography will be the standard work on Adorno for years to come.
| Author | : Liz Stanley |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780719046490 |
This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.
| Author | : Sidonie Smith |
| Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
| Total Pages | : 546 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780299158446 |
The first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography. Essays from 39 prominent critics and writers explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe. A list of more than 200 women's autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.
| Author | : Ira B. Nadel |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 1986-06-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1349090336 |
| Author | : Laura Marcus |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
In this study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in 19th- and 20th-century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction - debates now refigured in feminist theory.
| Author | : Rene Wellek |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-04-02 |
| Genre | : Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781628972832 |
Theory of Literature was born from the collaboration of Ren Wellek, a Vienna-born student of Prague School linguistics, and Austin Warren, an independently minded "old New Critic." Unlike many other textbooks of its era, however, this classic kowtows to no dogma and toes no party line. Wellek and Warren looked at literature as both a social product--influenced by politics, economics, etc.--as well as a self-contained system of formal structures. Incorporating examples from Aristotle to Coleridge, written in clear, uncondescending prose, Theory of Literature is a work which, especially in its suspicion of simplistic explanations and its distrust of received wisdom, remains extremely relevant to the study of literature today.
| Author | : Julie Rak |
| Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2009-08-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1554587719 |
Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable properties, and rather than focusing on critical approaches, the essays explore auto/biography as a discourse about identity and representation in the context of numerous disciplinary shifts. Auto/biography in Canada looks at how life narratives are made in Canada . Originating from literary studies, history, and social work, the essays in this collection cover topics that range from queer Canadian autobiography, autobiography and autism, and newspaper death notices as biography, to Canadian autobiography and the Holocaust, Grey Owl and authenticity, France Théoret and autofiction, and a new reading of Stolen Life, the collaborative text by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe. Julie Rak’s useful “big picture” introduction traces the history of auto/biography studies in Canada. While the contributors chart disciplinary shifts taking place in auto/biography studies, their essays are also part of the ongoing scholarship that is remaking ways to understand Canada.
