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Mapping lives : the uses of biography

These essays on the problems and functions of biography - particularly those of writers, thinkers and artists - investigate a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture
eBook, English, ©2002
Oxford University Press for the British Academy, Oxford, ©2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 350 pages)
9780191734595, 9780197263181, 0191734594, 0197263186
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The proper study? / Richard Holmes
From biography to hagiography / Sergei S. Averintsev
Biography and autobiography in the Italian Renaissance / Martin McLaughlin
national biography and the arts of memory / Ian Donaldson
From eulogy to biography: the French academic eloge / Peter France
Adding stones to the edifice: patterns of German biography / Roger Paulin
Shaping Victorian biography / Elinor S. Shaffer
Sainte-Beuve: biography, criticism, and the literary / Ann Jefferson
Yury Tynyanov and the "literary fact" / Avril Pyman
Freud and the art of biography / Malcolm Bowie
The newness of the new biography" / Laura Marcus
The biographer as archaeologist / William St. Clair
Writing lives forwards / Mark Kinkead-Weekes
Shaping the truth / Miranda Seymour
Sartre's existentialist biographies / Christina Howells
Life on film / Ian Christie
Gender, biography, and the public sphere / Kay Ferres
"The solace of doubt"? / James Walter
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Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010