Literary lives : biography and the search for understanding /

David Ellis meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually describe their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness.

書誌詳細
第一著者: Ellis, David, 1939-
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrcjg
目次:
  • Ch. 1. Lives without Theory
  • Ch. 2. Biography and Explanation
  • Ch. 3. Ancestors
  • Ch. 4. Primal Scenes
  • Ch. 5. Body Matters
  • Ch. 6. The Sociological Imagination
  • Ch. 7. History, Chance and Self-determination
  • Ch. 8. Compatibility, Sartre and Long Biographies
  • Ch. 9. 'Dignity and Uses of Biography'