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Different lives : global perspectives on biography in public cultures and societies / / edited by Hans Renders, David Veltman
| Different lives : global perspectives on biography in public cultures and societies / / edited by Hans Renders, David Veltman |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 808.06/692 |
| Collana | Biography studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Biography
Biography as a literary form |
| ISBN | 90-04-43497-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Richard Holmes -- Different Lives in a Global World Hans Renders -- Truth, Lies and Fake Truth: the Future of Biography Nigel Hamilton -- Historical Biography in Canada: Historians, Publishers, and the Public Daniel R. Meister -- Biography as Discourse: South African Biography in the Post-Apartheid Era Lindie Koorts -- ‘La pauvre Belgique’: How a Debate over the Repression after the Second World War Informed a Biographical Tradition in Belgium David Veltman -- Biography in Spain: a Historical and Historiographic Perspective María Jesús González -- The Chinese Sense of Self and Biographical Narrative: an Overview Kerry Brown -- Double Dutch: the Art of Presidential Biography Carl Rollyson -- Biography in Australia: Different Yet the Same? All Connected Flatland? Melanie Nolan -- Writing Lives in Contemporary Italy Yannick Gouchan -- Hidden and Forbidden Issues in Works of Iranian Biography Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian -- From Reticence to Revelation: Biography in New Zealand Doug Munro -- The Icelandic Biography and Egodocuments in Historical Writing Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon -- Between ‘Creators and Bearers of the Czech National Myth’ and an ‘Academic Suicide’: Czech Biography in the Twenty-First Century Jana Wohlmuth Markupová -- Biographies and Their Agendas: the Danish Biographical Tradition in a Historical Perspective Joanna Cymbrykiewicz -- The Biography’s Pretension to Truth Is Relative. Biography in the Netherlands Elsbeth Etty -- Inception, Inheritance and Innovation: Sima Qian, Liang Qichao and the Modernization of Chinese Biography Liu Jialin -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794150403321 |
| Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Different lives : global perspectives on biography in public cultures and societies / / edited by Hans Renders, David Veltman
| Different lives : global perspectives on biography in public cultures and societies / / edited by Hans Renders, David Veltman |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 808.06/692 |
| Collana | Biography studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Biography
Biography as a literary form |
| ISBN | 90-04-43497-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Richard Holmes -- Different Lives in a Global World Hans Renders -- Truth, Lies and Fake Truth: the Future of Biography Nigel Hamilton -- Historical Biography in Canada: Historians, Publishers, and the Public Daniel R. Meister -- Biography as Discourse: South African Biography in the Post-Apartheid Era Lindie Koorts -- ‘La pauvre Belgique’: How a Debate over the Repression after the Second World War Informed a Biographical Tradition in Belgium David Veltman -- Biography in Spain: a Historical and Historiographic Perspective María Jesús González -- The Chinese Sense of Self and Biographical Narrative: an Overview Kerry Brown -- Double Dutch: the Art of Presidential Biography Carl Rollyson -- Biography in Australia: Different Yet the Same? All Connected Flatland? Melanie Nolan -- Writing Lives in Contemporary Italy Yannick Gouchan -- Hidden and Forbidden Issues in Works of Iranian Biography Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian -- From Reticence to Revelation: Biography in New Zealand Doug Munro -- The Icelandic Biography and Egodocuments in Historical Writing Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon -- Between ‘Creators and Bearers of the Czech National Myth’ and an ‘Academic Suicide’: Czech Biography in the Twenty-First Century Jana Wohlmuth Markupová -- Biographies and Their Agendas: the Danish Biographical Tradition in a Historical Perspective Joanna Cymbrykiewicz -- The Biography’s Pretension to Truth Is Relative. Biography in the Netherlands Elsbeth Etty -- Inception, Inheritance and Innovation: Sima Qian, Liang Qichao and the Modernization of Chinese Biography Liu Jialin -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808288403321 |
| Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fear of theory : towards a new theoretical justification of biography / / Hans Renders and David Veltman, editors
| Fear of theory : towards a new theoretical justification of biography / / Hans Renders and David Veltman, editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Brill, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Disciplina | 101 |
| Collana | Biography Studies |
| Soggetto topico | Methodology |
| ISBN | 90-04-49889-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795429203321 |
| Leiden : , : Brill, , [2022] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fear of theory : towards a new theoretical justification of biography / / Hans Renders and David Veltman, editors
| Fear of theory : towards a new theoretical justification of biography / / Hans Renders and David Veltman, editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Brill, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Disciplina | 101 |
| Collana | Biography Studies |
| Soggetto topico | Methodology |
| ISBN | 90-04-49889-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824520203321 |
| Leiden : , : Brill, , [2022] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory and life writing / / edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton
| Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory and life writing / / edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton |
| Edizione | [Revised and augmented edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Disciplina | 920.001 |
| Collana | Egodocuments and History Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Biography as a literary form
Biography - Philosophy Historiography Microhistory Autobiography |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-27470-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Towards Traditions and Nations / Binne de Haan and Hans Renders -- Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction / Hans Renders -- The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century / James Walter -- The Uses of Biography / Giovanni Levi -- The Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century / Sabina Loriga -- Contemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century / Hans Renders -- What Is Micro in Microhistory? / Matti Peltonen -- Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge / Richard D. Brown -- The Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory / Hans Renders -- Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It / Carlo Ginzburg -- Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing / Hans Renders -- The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing / Binne de Haan -- Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice / Marlene Kadar -- Biography / Anonymous -- Sex in Biography / Ernest Boyd -- The Personal in the Political Biography / Hans Renders -- The Biographical Method / Hans Renders -- Why Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin / Hans Renders -- A Nobel Prize for Biography / Nigel Hamilton -- Bibliography / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Index / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458293303321 |
| Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory and life writing / / edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton
| Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory and life writing / / edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton |
| Edizione | [Revised and augmented edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Disciplina | 920.001 |
| Collana | Egodocuments and History Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Biography as a literary form
Biography - Philosophy Historiography Microhistory Autobiography |
| ISBN | 90-04-27470-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Towards Traditions and Nations / Binne de Haan and Hans Renders -- Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction / Hans Renders -- The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century / James Walter -- The Uses of Biography / Giovanni Levi -- The Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century / Sabina Loriga -- Contemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century / Hans Renders -- What Is Micro in Microhistory? / Matti Peltonen -- Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge / Richard D. Brown -- The Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory / Hans Renders -- Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It / Carlo Ginzburg -- Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing / Hans Renders -- The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing / Binne de Haan -- Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice / Marlene Kadar -- Biography / Anonymous -- Sex in Biography / Ernest Boyd -- The Personal in the Political Biography / Hans Renders -- The Biographical Method / Hans Renders -- Why Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin / Hans Renders -- A Nobel Prize for Biography / Nigel Hamilton -- Bibliography / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Index / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791036403321 |
| Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory and life writing / / edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton
| Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory and life writing / / edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton |
| Edizione | [Revised and augmented edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Disciplina | 920.001 |
| Collana | Egodocuments and History Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Biography as a literary form
Biography - Philosophy Historiography Microhistory Autobiography |
| ISBN | 90-04-27470-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Towards Traditions and Nations / Binne de Haan and Hans Renders -- Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction / Hans Renders -- The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century / James Walter -- The Uses of Biography / Giovanni Levi -- The Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century / Sabina Loriga -- Contemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century / Hans Renders -- What Is Micro in Microhistory? / Matti Peltonen -- Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge / Richard D. Brown -- The Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory / Hans Renders -- Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It / Carlo Ginzburg -- Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing / Hans Renders -- The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing / Binne de Haan -- Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice / Marlene Kadar -- Biography / Anonymous -- Sex in Biography / Ernest Boyd -- The Personal in the Political Biography / Hans Renders -- The Biographical Method / Hans Renders -- Why Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin / Hans Renders -- A Nobel Prize for Biography / Nigel Hamilton -- Bibliography / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Index / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816023803321 |
| Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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