Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries (De Gruyter Textbook)

 
9783110501612: Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries (De Gruyter Textbook)
ISBN 10: 3110501619 ISBN 13: 9783110501612
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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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Wilhelm W. Hemecker and Edward Saunders, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography, Vienna, Austria.

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Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3110501619
ISBN 13 
9783110501612
Einband
Broschiert
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
296
Herausgeber
Hemecker Wilhelm, Saunders Edward
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