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Autore |
Hamilton Nigel |
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Titolo |
How to do biography [[electronic resource] ] : a primer / / Nigel Hamilton |
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Cambridge, : Harvard University Press, 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (379 pages.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biography as a literary form |
Biography - Research - Methodology |
Autobiography - Authorship |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Getting Started -- 1. The Task of Biography -- 2. What Is Your Agenda? -- 3. Defining Your Audience -- 4. Researching Your Subject -- 5. The Shape of a Life -- II. Composing a Life-Story -- 6. The Starting Point -- 7. Birthing Your Subject -- 8. Childhood and Youth -- 9. Love Stories -- 10. Life’s Work -- 11. The Twilight Years -- 12. Ending Your Story -- III. Variations on a Theme -- 13. Autobiography and Memoirs -- 14. Memoir -- 15. Truth—and Its Consequences -- 16. The Afterlife -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft. |
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