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.

Bibliografske podrobnosti
Glavni avtor: Ellis, David, 1939-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000.
Online dostop:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrcjg
Kazalo:
  • 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'