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.
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2000.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrcjg |
Mục lục:
- 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'