Biography In Theory
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Biography In Theory
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Author : Wilhelm Hemecker
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-08-07
Biography In Theory written by Wilhelm Hemecker and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
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’.
Contesting The Subject
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Author : William H. Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 1991
Contesting The Subject written by William H. Epstein and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Stanley Fish opens the collection with a persuasive argument for the role of intention and biography. Michael McKeon, Gordon Turnbull, and Jerome Christensen are concerned with the late eighteenth--and early nineteenth-century English cultural discourse that gave rise to the nearly simultaneous emergence of literary biography, Romantic sensibility, and reflexive human consciousness. The essays by Alison Booth, Cheryl Walker, and Sharon O'Brien reveal that the recognition or lack thereof the biographical subject has received and remains both a problem and an opportunity for women writers and readers. The essays by Valerie Ross, Rob Wilson, Steven Weiland, and William Epstein pursue the question of difference and cultural reification in the theory and practice of a specifically American biography and biographical criticism.
Fear Of Theory
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Author : Hans Renders
language : en
Publisher: Biography Studies
Release Date : 2021-12-02
Fear Of Theory written by Hans Renders and has been published by Biography Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Recent academic historiography has seen a profusion of theoretical perspectives on biography, both analytical and descriptive. Yet many biographers still fear 'theory' as antithetical to accessible narration of real lives. This volume presents eighteen essays by more than a dozen scholars and practitioners from Australia, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, and the United States who seek to banish such fear. Writing with candor, wide experience and familiarity with modern teaching, they examine the riches greeting the biographer willing to think more deeply about biography: its inner workings and rationale in a world still hungry for fact and truth. Contributors are: Nigel Hamilton, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, Emma McEwin, Melanie Nolan, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Eric Palmen, Hans Renders, Carl Rollyson, David T. Roth, István M. Szijártó, Jeffrey Tyssens, and David Veltman"--
Albert Einstein
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Author : Biographiq
language : en
Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
Release Date : 2008
Albert Einstein written by Biographiq and has been published by Filiquarian Publishing, LLC. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Albert Einstein: The Man Behind the Theories is a biography of the German-born theoretical physicist who revolutionized the world with his theory of relativity and his mass-energy equivalence, better known as E = mc2. Einstein's special theory of relativity reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism and created a new theory of gravitation with his general theory of relativity. Not only was Einstein a prolific physicist, but he was also a prolific writer with over fifty published scientific papers and also non-scientific books to his credit. Albert Einstein: The Man Behind the Theories is a highly recommended publication for those who are interested in learning about the life of Albert Einstein.
The Auto Biographical I
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Author : Liz Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1992
The Auto Biographical I written by Liz Stanley and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with American prose literature categories.
This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.
Metabiography
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Author : Caitríona Ní Dhúill
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-03-09
Metabiography written by Caitríona Ní Dhúill and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through to contemporary experiments in politically committed and hybrid forms of life writing. The book shows how biographical texts in fact destabilise the models of historical visibility, cultural prominence and narrative coherence that the genre itself seems to uphold. Addressing the fraught relationships between genre and gender, private and public, image and text, life and narrative that play out in the modern biographical tradition, Metabiography suggests new possibilities for reading, writing and thinking about this enduringly popular genre.
Handbook Of Psychobiography
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Author : William Todd Schultz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-07-07
Handbook Of Psychobiography written by William Todd Schultz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-07 with Psychology categories.
This exceptionally readable and down-to-earth handbook is destined to become the definitive guide to psychobiographical research, the application of psychological theory and research to individual lives of historical importance. It brings together for the first time the world's leading psychobiographers, writing lucidly on many of the major figures of our age - from Osama Bin Laden to Elvis Presley. The first section of the book addresses the subject of how to construct an effective psychobiography. Editor William Todd Schultz introduces the field, provides valuable definitions of good and bad psychobiography, discusses an optimal structure for biographical data. Dan McAdams explores the question of what psychobiographers might learn from current research in personality psychology. Alan Elms delivers wise advice on the tricky subject of theory choice in psychobiography. William Runyan asks why Van Gogh cut off his ear, and in the process explains how one evaluates competing interpretations of the same event in a subject's life. And Kate Isaacson describes a template for use in multiple-case psychobiography. Never before has method in psychobiography been so clearly and explicitly addressed. Those just getting started in the field will find in Section One a detailed roadmap for success. The remaining sections of the book are composed of richly engaging case studies of famous artists, psychologists, and politicians. They address compelling questions such as: What are the subjective origins of photographer Diane Arbus's obsession with freaks? In what ways did the early loss of Sylvia Plath's father affect her poetry and presage her suicide? Out of what painful life experience did James Barrie drive himself to invent Peter Pan? Why did Elvis experience such difficulty singing the song "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" What accounts for Bin Laden's radicalism, Kim Jong Il's paranoia, George W. Bush's conflict with identity? Why did Freud go so disastrously astray in his analysis of Leonardo? What made psychologist Gordon Allport's meeting with Freud so pungently significant? How did the loss of his father determine major elements of Nietzsche's philosophy? These questions and many more get answered, often in surprising and incisive fashion. Additional chapters take up the lives of Harvard operationist S.S. Stevens, Erik Erikson, Edith Wharton, Saddam Hussein, Truman Capote, Kathryn Harrison, Jack Kerouac, and others. Within each case study, tips are proffered along the way as to how psychobiography can be done more cogently, more intelligently, and more valuably.
Vygotsky S Psychology
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Author : Alex Kozulin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Vygotsky S Psychology written by Alex Kozulin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Psychology categories.
A biography of the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, a contemporary of Freud and Piaget, which covers his life, his psychological theory of language, thought and development and the influence of his ideas on Russian and Western culture since his early death in 1934.
Intellectual Pursuits Of Nicolas Rashevsky
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Author : Maya M. Shmailov
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2016-08-29
Intellectual Pursuits Of Nicolas Rashevsky written by Maya M. Shmailov and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-29 with Mathematics categories.
Who was Nicolas Rashevsky? To answer that question, this book draws on Rashevsky’s unexplored personal archival papers and shares interviews with his family, students and friends, as well as discussions with biologists and mathematical biologists, to flesh out and complete the picture. “Most modern-day biologists have never heard of Rashevsky. Why?” In what constitutes the first detailed biography of theoretical physicist Nicolas Rashevsky (1899-1972), spanning key aspects of his long scientific career, the book captures Rashevsky’s ways of thinking about the place mathematical biology should have in biology and his personal struggle for the acceptance of his views. It brings to light the tension between mathematicians, theoretical physicists and biologists when it comes to the introduction of physico-mathematical tools into biology. Rashevsky’s successes and failures in his efforts to establish mathematical biology as a subfield of biology provide an important test case for understanding the role of theory (in particular mathematics) in understanding the natural world. With the biological sciences moving towards new vistas of inter- and multi-disciplinary collaborations and research programs, the book will appeal to a wide readership ranging from historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture to students and general readers with an interest in the history of the life sciences, mathematical biology and the social construction of science.
Researching Life Stories
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Author : Dan Goodley
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Researching Life Stories written by Dan Goodley and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It has long been argued that 'an age of biography is upon us'; certainly the life-story now has a well-recognised role as a key resource in social research. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive and practical guide to carrying out.