How to do biography [[electronic resource] ] : a primer / / Nigel Hamilton
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, : Harvard University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (379 pages.) |
| Disciplina: | 808/.06692 |
| Soggetto topico: | Biography as a literary form |
| Biography - Research - Methodology | |
| Autobiography - Authorship | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How to do biography |
| ISBN: | 0-674-03821-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778016403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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