Understanding biographies: on biographies in history and stories in biography
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[Odense M]
University Press of Southern Denmark
2017
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| Series: | University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences
vol. 538 |
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Physical Description: | 232 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9788776749927 |
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Preface 7
I What is Biography? 11
Where’s the muscle? 11
The biography dies, and is reborn 17
Biographical definitions 22
Biographical relevance and historical weight
of the individual 26
Biographical Gender 37
Who are the biographers - who are their protagonists? 49
Biographical archetypes 68
II Attitudes, Principles, and Critics 87
Conventions and innovations 87
Dusting Down and New Biographies 95
The Elastic Principles of Biography 104
The Biographical Triangle 113
Friend, Enemy, Puppeteer or Ghostwriter 119
III Biographical ethics 127
Where is Privacy 127
A Higher Form of Cannibalism? 132
Tread Softly - For You Tread On My Life 136
Posthumous Privacy 140
Biographical Muscle 145
IV Four biographies, and how they were read,
written and reviewed 151
Four biographies 151
Just for Fun 152
The Tautology of Myth 159
Life caught between light and darkness 166
Who is right: the archive rat or the stylist? 179
V Acknowledgements 195
VI Literature, references, index 197
Literature 197
Journals and Newspapers 205
References 207
Index 228
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