Biography [[electronic resource] ] : a brief history / / Nigel Hamilton |
Autore | Hamilton Nigel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
Disciplina | 907.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Biography as a literary form
Biography - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-03822-3 |
Classificazione | EC 7419 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1. Evolutionary Biography -- 2. Hagiography -- 3. The Renaissance of Biography -- 4. Victorian Pseudobiography -- 5. The Early Twentieth Century -- 6. The Rise of Film -- 7. The People's War -- 8. Death of the Author -- 9. New Directions -- 10. Biography Comes of Age -- 11. Biography on Trial -- 12. The Miner's Canary -- 13. Biography Today -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455402503321 |
Hamilton Nigel | ||
Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Biography [[electronic resource] ] : a brief history / / Nigel Hamilton |
Autore | Hamilton Nigel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
Disciplina | 907.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Biography as a literary form
Biography - History |
ISBN |
0-674-26426-6
0-674-03822-3 |
Classificazione | EC 7419 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1. Evolutionary Biography -- 2. Hagiography -- 3. The Renaissance of Biography -- 4. Victorian Pseudobiography -- 5. The Early Twentieth Century -- 6. The Rise of Film -- 7. The People's War -- 8. Death of the Author -- 9. New Directions -- 10. Biography Comes of Age -- 11. Biography on Trial -- 12. The Miner's Canary -- 13. Biography Today -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778015003321 |
Hamilton Nigel | ||
Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Biography : a brief history / / Nigel Hamilton |
Autore | Hamilton Nigel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
Disciplina | 907.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Biography as a literary form
Biography - History |
ISBN |
0-674-26426-6
0-674-03822-3 |
Classificazione | EC 7419 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1. Evolutionary Biography -- 2. Hagiography -- 3. The Renaissance of Biography -- 4. Victorian Pseudobiography -- 5. The Early Twentieth Century -- 6. The Rise of Film -- 7. The People's War -- 8. Death of the Author -- 9. New Directions -- 10. Biography Comes of Age -- 11. Biography on Trial -- 12. The Miner's Canary -- 13. Biography Today -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820558703321 |
Hamilton Nigel | ||
Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Biography in theory / / edited by Wilhelm Hemecker and Edward Saunders with the assistance of Gregor Schima |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 pages) |
Disciplina | 808.06692 |
Collana | De Gruyter Textbook |
Soggetto topico |
Authors - History and criticism
History in literature Biography as a literary form |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-11-051667-5 |
Classificazione | EC 7419 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Theory of Biography or Biography in Theory? / Saunders, Edward -- The Rambler 60 (13 October 1750) / Johnson, Samuel -- The Idler 24 (24 November 1759) / Johnson, Samuel -- Samuel Johnson's Advice to Biographers / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity (1793) / Herder, Johann Gottfried -- The Living Memory of Biography: Johann Gottfried Herder's 'Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity' / Heinrich, Tobias -- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History [Extract] (1840) / Carlyle, Thomas -- World History as Heroic Biography: Thomas Carlyle's 'Great Men' / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- Plan for the Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences [Extract] [1904-10] / Dilthey, Wilhelm -- Between Art and Academia: Wilhelm Dilthey's Theory of Biography / Hemecker, Wilhelm -- The Method of Sainte-Beuve [Extract] [1909] / Proust, Marcel -- Against Biographical Interpretation: Marcel Proust's Attack on Sainte-Beuve / Saunders, Edward -- Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood [Extract] (1910) / Freud, Sigmund -- The Riddles of Sigmund Freud's Leonardo - Biography, Case History, or ...? / Hemecker, Wilhelm -- Preface to Eminent Victorians (1918) / Strachey, Lytton -- Biography as Exposure: Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- Literature and Biography (1923) / Tomashevsky, Boris -- In Search of the Literary Fact: Boris Tomashevsky and the Limits of the Biographical Approach / Saunders, Edward -- The Biography of the Object (1929) / Tretiakov, Sergei -- In the Name of the Collective: Sergei Tretiakov's Plea for a Biography of the Object / Fetz, Bernhard -- The Biography as an Art Form of the New Bourgeoisie (1930) / Kracauer, Siegfried -- How to Make Employees Matter: Siegfried Kracauer's Critique of Biography / Marian, Esther -- The New Biography (1927) / Woolf, Virginia -- The Art of Biography (1939) / Woolf, Virginia -- The Biographical Craft: Virginia Woolf's Contributions to the Theory of Biography / Mittermayer, Manfred -- History as a Poetess (1943) / Zweig, Stefan -- Biography between Poetry and History: Stefan Zweig's 'History as a Poetess' / Mitterer, Cornelius -- The Progressive-Regressive Method [Extract] (1957) / Sartre, Jean-Paul -- Tracing the 'projet original': Jean-Paul Sartre's Biographical Hermeneutics / Dikovich, Albert -- Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971) / Barthes, Roland -- A Life in Memory Fragments: Roland Barthes's 'Biographemes' / Österle, David -- 'Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners': Ethnobiographical Prospects (1978) / Clifford, James -- Provincializing the Biographical Subject: James Clifford's Manifesto for a 'Less Centred' Biography / Saunders, Edward -- Landscape for a Good Woman [Extract] (1986) / Steedman, Carolyn -- Intersectional Biography: Class, Gender, and Genre in Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- The Biographical Illusion (1986) / Bourdieu, Pierre -- Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu's 'The Biographical Illusion' (1986) / Kolkenbrock, Marie -- Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past [Extract] (1989) / Beer, Gillian -- Things Mean Differently at Different Historical Moments: Re-thinking (Literary) History and Biography / Prager, Katharina -- Post-Thomas Edison (Recalling an Anti-Biography) (2003) / Nye, David E. -- From 'Anti-Biography' to Online Biography? / Prager, Katharina / Hannesschläger, Vanessa -- Approaching Celebrity Studies [Extract] (2010) / Turner, Graeme -- Biography and Celebrity Studies / Saunders, Edward -- List of Sources -- Editorial Note -- Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467917203321 |
Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Biography in theory / / edited by Wilhelm Hemecker and Edward Saunders with the assistance of Gregor Schima |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 pages) |
Disciplina | 808.06692 |
Collana | De Gruyter Textbook |
Soggetto topico |
Authors - History and criticism
History in literature Biography as a literary form |
ISBN | 3-11-051667-5 |
Classificazione | EC 7419 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Theory of Biography or Biography in Theory? / Saunders, Edward -- The Rambler 60 (13 October 1750) / Johnson, Samuel -- The Idler 24 (24 November 1759) / Johnson, Samuel -- Samuel Johnson's Advice to Biographers / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity (1793) / Herder, Johann Gottfried -- The Living Memory of Biography: Johann Gottfried Herder's 'Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity' / Heinrich, Tobias -- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History [Extract] (1840) / Carlyle, Thomas -- World History as Heroic Biography: Thomas Carlyle's 'Great Men' / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- Plan for the Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences [Extract] [1904-10] / Dilthey, Wilhelm -- Between Art and Academia: Wilhelm Dilthey's Theory of Biography / Hemecker, Wilhelm -- The Method of Sainte-Beuve [Extract] [1909] / Proust, Marcel -- Against Biographical Interpretation: Marcel Proust's Attack on Sainte-Beuve / Saunders, Edward -- Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood [Extract] (1910) / Freud, Sigmund -- The Riddles of Sigmund Freud's Leonardo - Biography, Case History, or ...? / Hemecker, Wilhelm -- Preface to Eminent Victorians (1918) / Strachey, Lytton -- Biography as Exposure: Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- Literature and Biography (1923) / Tomashevsky, Boris -- In Search of the Literary Fact: Boris Tomashevsky and the Limits of the Biographical Approach / Saunders, Edward -- The Biography of the Object (1929) / Tretiakov, Sergei -- In the Name of the Collective: Sergei Tretiakov's Plea for a Biography of the Object / Fetz, Bernhard -- The Biography as an Art Form of the New Bourgeoisie (1930) / Kracauer, Siegfried -- How to Make Employees Matter: Siegfried Kracauer's Critique of Biography / Marian, Esther -- The New Biography (1927) / Woolf, Virginia -- The Art of Biography (1939) / Woolf, Virginia -- The Biographical Craft: Virginia Woolf's Contributions to the Theory of Biography / Mittermayer, Manfred -- History as a Poetess (1943) / Zweig, Stefan -- Biography between Poetry and History: Stefan Zweig's 'History as a Poetess' / Mitterer, Cornelius -- The Progressive-Regressive Method [Extract] (1957) / Sartre, Jean-Paul -- Tracing the 'projet original': Jean-Paul Sartre's Biographical Hermeneutics / Dikovich, Albert -- Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971) / Barthes, Roland -- A Life in Memory Fragments: Roland Barthes's 'Biographemes' / Österle, David -- 'Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners': Ethnobiographical Prospects (1978) / Clifford, James -- Provincializing the Biographical Subject: James Clifford's Manifesto for a 'Less Centred' Biography / Saunders, Edward -- Landscape for a Good Woman [Extract] (1986) / Steedman, Carolyn -- Intersectional Biography: Class, Gender, and Genre in Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- The Biographical Illusion (1986) / Bourdieu, Pierre -- Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu's 'The Biographical Illusion' (1986) / Kolkenbrock, Marie -- Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past [Extract] (1989) / Beer, Gillian -- Things Mean Differently at Different Historical Moments: Re-thinking (Literary) History and Biography / Prager, Katharina -- Post-Thomas Edison (Recalling an Anti-Biography) (2003) / Nye, David E. -- From 'Anti-Biography' to Online Biography? / Prager, Katharina / Hannesschläger, Vanessa -- Approaching Celebrity Studies [Extract] (2010) / Turner, Graeme -- Biography and Celebrity Studies / Saunders, Edward -- List of Sources -- Editorial Note -- Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794991403321 |
Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Biography in theory / / edited by Wilhelm Hemecker and Edward Saunders with the assistance of Gregor Schima |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 pages) |
Disciplina | 808.06692 |
Collana | De Gruyter Textbook |
Soggetto topico |
Authors - History and criticism
History in literature Biography as a literary form |
ISBN | 3-11-051667-5 |
Classificazione | EC 7419 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Theory of Biography or Biography in Theory? / Saunders, Edward -- The Rambler 60 (13 October 1750) / Johnson, Samuel -- The Idler 24 (24 November 1759) / Johnson, Samuel -- Samuel Johnson's Advice to Biographers / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity (1793) / Herder, Johann Gottfried -- The Living Memory of Biography: Johann Gottfried Herder's 'Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity' / Heinrich, Tobias -- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History [Extract] (1840) / Carlyle, Thomas -- World History as Heroic Biography: Thomas Carlyle's 'Great Men' / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- Plan for the Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences [Extract] [1904-10] / Dilthey, Wilhelm -- Between Art and Academia: Wilhelm Dilthey's Theory of Biography / Hemecker, Wilhelm -- The Method of Sainte-Beuve [Extract] [1909] / Proust, Marcel -- Against Biographical Interpretation: Marcel Proust's Attack on Sainte-Beuve / Saunders, Edward -- Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood [Extract] (1910) / Freud, Sigmund -- The Riddles of Sigmund Freud's Leonardo - Biography, Case History, or ...? / Hemecker, Wilhelm -- Preface to Eminent Victorians (1918) / Strachey, Lytton -- Biography as Exposure: Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- Literature and Biography (1923) / Tomashevsky, Boris -- In Search of the Literary Fact: Boris Tomashevsky and the Limits of the Biographical Approach / Saunders, Edward -- The Biography of the Object (1929) / Tretiakov, Sergei -- In the Name of the Collective: Sergei Tretiakov's Plea for a Biography of the Object / Fetz, Bernhard -- The Biography as an Art Form of the New Bourgeoisie (1930) / Kracauer, Siegfried -- How to Make Employees Matter: Siegfried Kracauer's Critique of Biography / Marian, Esther -- The New Biography (1927) / Woolf, Virginia -- The Art of Biography (1939) / Woolf, Virginia -- The Biographical Craft: Virginia Woolf's Contributions to the Theory of Biography / Mittermayer, Manfred -- History as a Poetess (1943) / Zweig, Stefan -- Biography between Poetry and History: Stefan Zweig's 'History as a Poetess' / Mitterer, Cornelius -- The Progressive-Regressive Method [Extract] (1957) / Sartre, Jean-Paul -- Tracing the 'projet original': Jean-Paul Sartre's Biographical Hermeneutics / Dikovich, Albert -- Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971) / Barthes, Roland -- A Life in Memory Fragments: Roland Barthes's 'Biographemes' / Österle, David -- 'Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners': Ethnobiographical Prospects (1978) / Clifford, James -- Provincializing the Biographical Subject: James Clifford's Manifesto for a 'Less Centred' Biography / Saunders, Edward -- Landscape for a Good Woman [Extract] (1986) / Steedman, Carolyn -- Intersectional Biography: Class, Gender, and Genre in Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman / Dhúill, Caitríona Ní -- The Biographical Illusion (1986) / Bourdieu, Pierre -- Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu's 'The Biographical Illusion' (1986) / Kolkenbrock, Marie -- Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past [Extract] (1989) / Beer, Gillian -- Things Mean Differently at Different Historical Moments: Re-thinking (Literary) History and Biography / Prager, Katharina -- Post-Thomas Edison (Recalling an Anti-Biography) (2003) / Nye, David E. -- From 'Anti-Biography' to Online Biography? / Prager, Katharina / Hannesschläger, Vanessa -- Approaching Celebrity Studies [Extract] (2010) / Turner, Graeme -- Biography and Celebrity Studies / Saunders, Edward -- List of Sources -- Editorial Note -- Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816457803321 |
Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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