Biography in Theory : Key Texts with Commentaries

Biography in Theory : Key Texts with Commentaries /

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...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Hemecker, Wilhelm, Saunders, Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2017
Series:De Gruyter textbook.
Subjects:
Biography as a literary form.
History in literature.
Authors > Biography > History and criticism.
Biography.
Biographies as Topic.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction Theory of Biography or Biography in Theory?
  • The Rambler 60 (13 October 1750)
  • The Idler 24 (24 November 1759)
  • Samuel Johnson's Advice to Biographers
  • Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity (1793)
  • The Living Memory of Biography: Johann Gottfried Herder's 'Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity'
  • On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History [Extract] (1840)
  • World History as Heroic Biography: Thomas Carlyle's 'Great Men'
  • Plan for the Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences [Extract] [1904-10]
  • Between Art and Academia: Wilhelm Dilthey's Theory of Biography
  • The Method of Sainte-Beuve [Extract] [1909]
  • Against Biographical Interpretation: Marcel Proust's Attack on Sainte-Beuve
  • Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood [Extract] (1910)
  • The Riddles of Sigmund Freud's Leonardo
  • Biography, Case History, or ...?
  • Preface to Eminent Victorians (1918)
  • Biography as Exposure: Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians
  • Literature and Biography (1923)
  • In Search of the Literary Fact: Boris Tomashevsky and the Limits of the Biographical Approach
  • The Biography of the Object (1929)
  • In the Name of the Collective: Sergei Tretiakov's Plea for a Biography of the Object
  • The Biography as an Art Form of the New Bourgeoisie (1930)
  • How to Make Employees Matter: Siegfried Kracauer's Critique of Biography
  • The New Biography (1927)
  • The Art of Biography (1939)
  • The Biographical Craft: Virginia Woolf's Contributions to the Theory of Biography
  • History as a Poetess (1943)
  • Biography between Poetry and History: Stefan Zweig's 'History as a Poetess'
  • The Progressive-Regressive Method [Extract] (1957)
  • Tracing the 'projet original': Jean-Paul Sartre's Biographical Hermeneutics
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  • A Life in Memory Fragments: Roland Barthes's 'Biographemes'
  • 'Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners': Ethnobiographical Prospects (1978)
  • Provincializing the Biographical Subject: James Clifford's Manifesto for a 'Less Centred' Biography
  • Landscape for a Good Woman [Extract] (1986)
  • Intersectional Biography: Class, Gender, and Genre in Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman
  • The Biographical Illusion (1986)
  • Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu's 'The Biographical Illusion' (1986)
  • Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past [Extract] (1989)
  • Things Mean Differently at Different Historical Moments: Re-thinking (Literary) History and Biography
  • Post-Thomas Edison (Recalling an Anti-Biography) (2003)
  • From 'Anti-Biography' to Online Biography?
  • Approaching Celebrity Studies [Extract] (2010)
  • Biography and Celebrity Studies
  • List of Sources
  • Editorial Note
  • Select Bibliography
  • List of Contributors.

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