ISBN: 9783110501612 - biography in theory: key texts with commentaries (3 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21st centuries, the reader includes programmatic texts by authors such as Herder, Carlyle, Dilthey, Proust, Freud, Kracauer, Woolf and Bourdieu. Each text is accompanied by a commentary placing its contribution in critical context. Ideal for use in undergraduate seminars, this reader may also be of interest for academic researchers in the areas of literary studies and history aiming to get an overview of historical questions in biographical theory. This revised and updated English language edition also includes new translations of texts by J. G. Herder and Stefan Zweig, as well as an introductory discussion on the possibility of a theory of biography . Note: Due to copyright reasons, the chapter 'Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971)' (pp. 175 177) by Roland Barthes could not be included in the Elektronisches Buch. …

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Biography in Theory | A Reader | Wilhelm Hemecker (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur | VIII | Englisch | 2017 | De Gruyter | EAN 9783110501612 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …