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245 0 0 _aTheoretical discussions of biography :
_bapproaches from history, microhistory and life writing /
_cedited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton.
250 _aRev. and augm. ed.
264 1 _aLeiden :
_bBrill,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aEgodocuments and history series,
_x1873-653X ;
_vv. 7
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rHans Renders and Binne de Haan --
_tIntroduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies /
_rHans Renders and Binne de Haan --
_tTowards Traditions and Nations /
_rBinne de Haan and Hans Renders --
_tRoots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction /
_rHans Renders --
_tThe Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century /
_rJames Walter --
_tThe Uses of Biography /
_rGiovanni Levi --
_tThe Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century /
_rSabina Loriga --
_tContemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century /
_rHans Renders --
_tWhat Is Micro in Microhistory? /
_rMatti Peltonen --
_tMicrohistory and the Post-Modern Challenge /
_rRichard D. Brown --
_tThe Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory /
_rHans Renders --
_tMicrohistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It /
_rCarlo Ginzburg --
_tBiography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing /
_rHans Renders --
_tThe Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing /
_rBinne de Haan --
_tComing to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice /
_rMarlene Kadar --
_tBiography /
_rAnonymous --
_tSex in Biography /
_rErnest Boyd --
_tThe Personal in the Political Biography /
_rHans Renders --
_tThe Biographical Method /
_rHans Renders --
_tWhy Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin /
_rHans Renders --
_tA Nobel Prize for Biography /
_rNigel Hamilton --
_tBibliography /
_rHans Renders and Binne de Haan --
_tIndex /
_rHans Renders and Binne de Haan.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aTheoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives. Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter.
650 0 _aBiography as a literary form.
650 0 _aBiography
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aHistoriography.
650 0 _aMicrohistory.
650 0 _aAutobiography.
700 1 _aRenders, Hans.
700 1 _aDe Haan, Binne.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tTheoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014,
_z9789004270145
830 0 _aEgodocuments and History Series
_v7.
830 0 _aEuropean History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2014-II, ISBN: 9789004271456.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004274709
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