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Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists

Michael Lackey
Truthful Fictions Conversations with American Biographical Novelists Book PDF

Author : Michael Lackey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623566159

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Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists by Michael Lackey Pdf

In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works. These interviews do more than just define an innovative genre of contemporary fiction. They provide a precise way of understanding the complicated relationship and pregnant tensions between contextualized thinking and historical representation, interdisciplinary studies and 'truth' production, and fictional reality and factual constructions. By focusing on classical and contemporary debates regarding the nature of the historical novel, this volume charts the forces that gave birth to a new incarnation of this genre.

Writing Lives Together

Felicity James,Julian North
Writing Lives Together Book PDF

Author : Felicity James,Julian North
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351393072

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Writing Lives Together by Felicity James,Julian North Pdf

A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives; biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this volume as examples of ‘writing lives together’: British life writing which has been collaboratively authored and/or joins together the lives of multiple subjects. The contributions to this book range over published and unpublished material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories. The book closes with essays by contemporary, practising biographers, Daisy Hay and Laurel Brake, who explain their decisions to move away from the single subject in writing the lives of figures from the Romantic and Victorian periods. We conclude with the reflections and work of a contemporary poet, Kathleen Bell, writing on James Watt (1736–1819) and his family, in a ghostly collaboration with the archives. Taken as a whole, the collection offers distinctive new readings of collaboration in theory and practice, reflecting on the many ways in which lives might be written together: across gender boundaries, across time, across genre. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

a bibliography of sir thomas browne

Anonim
a bibliography of sir thomas browne Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How to Read the Bible

James L. Kugel
How to Read the Bible Book PDF

Author : James L. Kugel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780743235860

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How to Read the Bible by James L. Kugel Pdf

A reader's companion to the Bible draws on classic interpretations as well as modern scholarship to explain how the Bible may also be a metaphorical reflection of anthropological history.

Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers

Brenda Ayres
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Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319567501

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Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers by Brenda Ayres Pdf

This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.

Biography in Theory

Wilhelm Hemecker,Edward Saunders
Biography in Theory Book PDF

Author : Wilhelm Hemecker,Edward Saunders
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110516692

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Biography in Theory by Wilhelm Hemecker,Edward Saunders Pdf

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’.

Biographical Dictionaries and Related Works

Robert B. Slocum
Biographical Dictionaries and Related Works Book PDF

Author : Robert B. Slocum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography
ISBN : UCSC:32106020262553

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The Ubiquitous Siva

John Nemec
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Author : John Nemec
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199910540

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John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhij?a or "Recognition [of God]" School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism. In doing so it offers, for the very first time, a critical edition and annotated translation of a large portion of the first Pratyabhij?a text ever composed, the Sivadrsti of Somananda. In an extended introduction, Nemec argues that the author presents a unique form of non-dualism, a strict pantheism that declares all beings and entities found in the universe to be fully identical with the active and willful god Siva. This view stands in contrast to the philosophically more flexible panentheism of both his disciple and commentator, Utpaladeva, and the very few other Saiva tantric works that were extant in the author's day. Nemec also argues that the text was written for the author's fellow tantric initiates, not for a wider audience. This can be adduced from the structure of the work, the opponents the author addresses, and various other editorial strategies. Even the author's famous and vociferous arguments against the non-tantric Hindu grammarians may be shown to have been ultimately directed at an opposing Hindu tantric school that subscribed to many of the grammarians' philosophical views. Included in the volume is a critical edition and annotated translation of the first three (of seven) chapters of the text, along with the corresponding chapters of the commentary. These are the chapters in which Somananda formulates his arguments against opposing tantric authors and schools of thought. None of the materials made available in the present volume has ever been translated into English, apart from a brief rendering of the first chapter that was published without the commentary in 1957. None of the commentary has previously been translated into any language at all.

Never at Rest

Richard S. Westfall
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Author : Richard S. Westfall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983-04-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781107392793

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Never at Rest by Richard S. Westfall Pdf

This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation.

How to Read Texts

Neil McCaw
How to Read Texts Book PDF

Author : Neil McCaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441108180

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How to Read Texts by Neil McCaw Pdf

Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including: - Debates around critical theory - The role of history and context - The links between creativity and criticism - The relationship between author, reader and text. The new edition now includes guidance on analysing a range of multi-media texts, including film and online media as well as the purely literary. In addition to new practical examples, readings, exercises and 'checkpoints' that help students to build confidence in their own critical readings of both primary and secondary texts, the book now also offers guidance on writing fully-formed critical essays and tips for independent research. Comprehensively updated and revised throughout, How to Read Texts is an indispensible guide for students making the transition to university study.