E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten
Ellis Literary Lives
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-05786-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Biography and the Search for Understanding
E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-136-05786-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This book meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' loves by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body, or illness.
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Preface Chapter 1. Lives without Theory Chapter 2. Biography and Explanation Chapter 3. Ancestors Chapter 4. Primal Scenes Chapter 5. Body Matters Chapter 6. The Sociological Imagination Chapter 7. History, Chance, and Self-determination Chapter 8. Compatibility, Sartre and Long Biographies Chapter 9. 'Dignity and Uses of Biography' Notes Index




