Biography in Theory

Biography in Theory
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9783110516692
ISBN-13 : 3110516691
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Download or read book Biography in Theory written by Wilhelm Hemecker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21st centuries, the reader includes programmatic texts by authors such as Herder, Carlyle, Dilthey, Proust, Freud, Kracauer, Woolf and Bourdieu. Each text is accompanied by a commentary placing its contribution in critical context. Ideal for use in undergraduate seminars, this reader may also be of interest for academic researchers in the areas of literary studies and history aiming to get an overview of historical questions in biographical theory. This revised and updated English language edition also includes new translations of texts by J. G. Herder and Stefan Zweig, as well as an introductory discussion on the possibility of a ‘theory of biography’. Note: Due to copyright reasons, the chapter "Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971)" (pp. 175–177) by Roland Barthes could not be included in the ebook.


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