LEADER 04763nam 2200745 450 001 9910458293303321 005 20200903223051.0 010 $a90-04-27470-7 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004274709 035 $a(CKB)2550000001298026 035 $a(EBL)1688666 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001194653 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11709046 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001194653 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11169844 035 $a(PQKB)11437845 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1688666 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004274709 035 $a(PPN)184922879 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1688666 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10870358 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL608444 035 $a(OCoLC)879947771 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001298026 100 $a20140521h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTheoretical discussions of biography $eapproaches from history, microhistory and life writing /$fedited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton 205 $aRevised and augmented edition. 210 1$aLeiden, The Netherlands :$cBrill,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 225 1 $aEgodocuments and History Series,$x1873-653X ;$vVolume 7 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-27014-0 311 $a1-306-77193-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material /$rHans Renders and Binne de Haan -- $tIntroduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies /$rHans Renders and Binne de Haan -- $tTowards Traditions and Nations /$rBinne de Haan and Hans Renders -- $tRoots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction /$rHans Renders -- $tThe Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century /$rJames Walter -- $tThe Uses of Biography /$rGiovanni Levi -- $tThe Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century /$rSabina Loriga -- $tContemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century /$rHans Renders -- $tWhat Is Micro in Microhistory? /$rMatti Peltonen -- $tMicrohistory and the Post-Modern Challenge /$rRichard D. Brown -- $tThe Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory /$rHans Renders -- $tMicrohistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It /$rCarlo Ginzburg -- $tBiography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing /$rHans Renders -- $tThe Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing /$rBinne de Haan -- $tComing to Terms: Life Writing ? from Genre to Critical Practice /$rMarlene Kadar -- $tBiography /$rAnonymous -- $tSex in Biography /$rErnest Boyd -- $tThe Personal in the Political Biography /$rHans Renders -- $tThe Biographical Method /$rHans Renders -- $tWhy Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin /$rHans Renders -- $tA Nobel Prize for Biography /$rNigel Hamilton -- $tBibliography /$rHans Renders and Binne de Haan -- $tIndex /$rHans Renders and Binne de Haan. 330 $aTheoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives. Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter. 410 0$aEgodocuments and history series ;$vVolume 7. 606 $aBiography as a literary form 606 $aBiography$xPhilosophy 606 $aHistoriography 606 $aMicrohistory 606 $aAutobiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBiography as a literary form. 615 0$aBiography$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aHistoriography. 615 0$aMicrohistory. 615 0$aAutobiography. 676 $a920.001 702 $aRenders$b Hans 702 $aDe Haan$b Binne 702 $aHamilton$b Nigel 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458293303321 996 $aTheoretical discussions of biography$92460851 997 $aUNINA