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.

Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsman: Ellis, David, 1939-
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000.
Länkar:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrcjg
Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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'