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Metabiography

Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Metabiography Book PDF

Author : Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030346638

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Metabiography by Caitríona Ní Dhúill Pdf

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.

Mapping Metabiographical Heartlands in Marina Warner’s Fiction

Souhir Zekri
Mapping Metabiographical Heartlands in Marina Warner s Fiction Book PDF

Author : Souhir Zekri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527535466

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Mapping Metabiographical Heartlands in Marina Warner’s Fiction by Souhir Zekri Pdf

This volume covers a wide range of contemporary and pressing issues, namely colonialism, displacement, rape, women’s oppression and the manipulation of religious discourse through a variety of theoretical approaches to Marina Warner’s fiction. It focuses on the theories of feminism, psychoanalysis and post-colonialism through the original perspective of metabiography as engrafted diaries, letters, memoirs and chronicles communicate the voices of the oppressed and the deceased by demystifying the mythopoeia constructed around and about them. The book also reconciles undergraduates and MA students to critical and literary theory through the study of Warner’s enriching fictional works as close textual analysis blends with brief overviews of various literary theories without burdening the book or its language with forbidding jargon. This book will be relevant to students, researchers and teachers due to its methodological orientation, dealing as it does with extracts which can be converted into critical theory practice in class.

Alexander Von Humboldt

Nicolaas A. Rupke
Alexander Von Humboldt Book PDF

Author : Nicolaas A. Rupke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226731490

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Alexander Von Humboldt by Nicolaas A. Rupke Pdf

Alexander von Humboldt is one of the most celebrated figures of late-modern science, famous for his work in physical geography, botanical geography and climatology. This volume traces Humboldt's biographical identities through Germany's collective past to shed light on the historical instability of our scientific heroes.

Genre Studies in Focus

Faten Haouioui,Hajer Ayadi
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Author : Faten Haouioui,Hajer Ayadi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781036400163

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Genre Studies in Focus by Faten Haouioui,Hajer Ayadi Pdf

This collection of essays aims to revise genre theory and studies. Authors in this volume present and discuss different literary genres in transition. They investigate genre hybridization, transformation, reconciliation and evolution. Therefore, the volume reconceptualizes the theory according to novel texts and contexts in, for example, trans-generic film series, feminine poetry, and Arab women writing. It introduces new generic labels in travel literature and new sub-genres in Maghrebean literature. Genre blurs the boundaries between genre hierarchy, labels, and borderlines. We read a gothic text that encompasses trauma, testimony, resistance and history. Moreover, scholars contributing to this collection astutely point out that genres are hybrid yet flexible by nature. They adopt a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to genre theory. The volume targets researchers, theorists and students reading and interpreting literary and historical texts alongside genre theory.

Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle

Friedrich Stadler
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Author : Friedrich Stadler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031077890

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Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle by Friedrich Stadler Pdf

This book offers a critical update of current Wittgenstein research on the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP) and its relation to the Vienna Circle. The contributions are written by renowned Wittgenstein scholars, on the occasion of the "Wittgenstein Years" 1921/1922 with a special focus on its origin, reception, and interpretation then and now. The main topic is the mutual relation between Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle (esp. Schlick, Waismann, Carnap, Gödel), but also Russell and Ramsey. In addition, included in this volume are new studies on Wittgenstein's life and work, on the philosophy of the TLP, and on the Wittgenstein family in philosophical and historical context. Furthermore, unpublished documents on Wittgenstein and Waismann from the archives are provided in form of edited and commented primary sources. As per the book series' usual format, a general part of this Yearbook covers a study on Neurath's economy as well as reviews of related publications.

Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts

Andrew Wright Hurley
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Author : Andrew Wright Hurley
Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140134

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Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts by Andrew Wright Hurley Pdf

A fascinating cultural studies account of the "afterlife" of Leichhardt, revealing both German entanglement in British colonialism in Australia, and in a broader sense, what happens when we maintain an open stance to the ghosts of the past.

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 : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110516678

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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’. Note: Due to copyright reasons, the chapter "Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971)" (pp. 175–177) by Roland Barthes could not be included in the ebook.

Canadian Graphic

Candida Rifkind,Linda Warley
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Author : Candida Rifkind,Linda Warley
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771121811

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Canadian Graphic by Candida Rifkind,Linda Warley Pdf

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to show how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real-life experiences. The essays explore the visual styles and storytelling techniques of Canadian cartoonists, as well as their shared concern with the spectacular vulnerability of the self. Canadian Graphic also considers the role of graphic life narratives in reimagining the national past, including Indigenous–settler relations, both world wars, and Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. Contributors use a range of approaches to analyze the political, aesthetic, and narrative tensions in these works between self and other, memory and history, individual and collective. An original contribution to the study of auto/biography, alternative comics, and Canadian print culture, Canadian Graphic proposes new ways of reading the intersection of comics and auto/ biography both within and across national boundaries.

Iliazd

Johanna Drucker
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Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421439631

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Iliazd by Johanna Drucker Pdf

Iliazd is at once a rich study of a significant figure and a thoughtful reflection on the way a biography creates an encounter with its always absent subject.

Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry

Ann Heilmann
Neo Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry Book PDF

Author : Ann Heilmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319713861

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Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry by Ann Heilmann Pdf

Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry’s afterlives in Victorian to contemporary (neo-Victorian) life-writing (‘biographilia’) examines the textual and performative strategies of biography, biofiction and biodrama of the last one and a half centuries. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ‘real’ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ‘faithful’ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ‘stable’ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ‘James Miranda Barry’, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.

Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction

Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction Book PDF

Author : Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031090196

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Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill Pdf

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Cultural Ways of Worldmaking

Vera Nünning,Ansgar Nünning,Birgit Neumann
Cultural Ways of Worldmaking Book PDF

Author : Vera Nünning,Ansgar Nünning,Birgit Neumann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110227550

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Cultural Ways of Worldmaking by Vera Nünning,Ansgar Nünning,Birgit Neumann Pdf

Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman's theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book «Ways of Worldmaking», this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. The volume serves to demonstrate how specific media and narratives affect the worlds that are created, and shows how these worlds are established as socially relevant. It also illustrates the extent to which ways of worldmaking are imbued with cultural values, and thus inevitably implicated in power relations.

The Politics of Contested Narratives

Ilse Josepha Lazaroms,Emily R. Gioielli
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Author : Ilse Josepha Lazaroms,Emily R. Gioielli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317615415

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The Politics of Contested Narratives by Ilse Josepha Lazaroms,Emily R. Gioielli Pdf

The twentieth century in Europe was characterized by great moments of rupture, such as two world wars, ideological conflict, and political polarization. In these processes, as well as in the historical writing that followed in its wake, the individual as an historical entity often appeared crushed. In line with contemporary theories about the precariousness of historical writing and the self, this volume seeks to understand the important developments in modern Europe from the perspective of the single, sometimes isolated, but always original viewpoint of individuals inhabiting the space at the other side of the traditional grand narratives. Including theoretical chapters as well as detailed case studies, this volume takes a biographical approach to dystopian events—the Holocaust, Fascism, Communism, and collectivization—by starting with the voices of unknown historical actors and relating their experiences to larger processes in modern European history, such as the emergence of the national, collective memory, and state formation, as well as changes in the understanding of modern identities and the (re)formulation of the self. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.

The Oxford History of Life-Writing

Patrick Hayes
The Oxford History of Life Writing Book PDF

Author : Patrick Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192668967

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The Oxford History of Life-Writing by Patrick Hayes Pdf

With the growing urgency of questions about how to claim identity and achieve authenticity, life-writing started to acquire an unprecedented cultural importance. A range of social and economic developments, from the publishing boom in memoir writing to the rise of the internet, transformed the possibilities for self-expression. By the end of the timespan covered in this book life-writing was no longer something done mainly by important individuals who wrote their autobiography, or by sensitive souls who kept a diary. It became a truly ubiquitous phenomenon, part and parcel of the everyday formation of selfhood. Considering a diverse range of texts from across the English-speaking world, this volume places life-writing in relation to wider debates about the sociology and philosophy of modern identity, and the changing marketplace of publishing and bookselling. Yet in doing so it seeks above all to credit the extraordinary literary inventiveness which the pursuit of self-knowledge inspired in this period. Major subjects addressed include: the aftermath of World War II, including responses to the Holocaust; the impact of psychoanalysis on biography; autofiction, autrebiography, and changing ideas about authentic self-knowledge; coming out memoirs and the transformation of sexual identity; feminist exemplary writing and lyric poetry; multilingualism and intercultural life-writing; the memoir boom and the decline of intimacy; testimony narrative and memory culture; posthumanism in theory and practice; literary biography as an alternative to literary theory; literary celebrity and its consequences for literature; social media and digital life-writing.

Experiments in Life-Writing

Lucia Boldrini,Julia Novak
Experiments in Life Writing Book PDF

Author : Lucia Boldrini,Julia Novak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319554143

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Experiments in Life-Writing by Lucia Boldrini,Julia Novak Pdf

This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character’s story. Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity. The Introduction of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.