Biography and the Question of Literature in France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biography and the Question of Literature in France write by Ann Jefferson. This book was released on 2007-01-04. Biography and the Question of Literature in France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes a fresh look at the relations between literature and biography by tracing the history of their connections through three hundred years of French literature. The starting point for this history is the eighteenth century when the term 'biography' first entered the French language and when the word 'literature' began to acquire its modern sense of writing marked by an aesthetic character. Arguing that the idea of literature is inherently open to revision and contestation, Ann Jefferson examines the way in which biographically-orientated texts have been engaged in questioning and revising definitions of literature. At the same time, she tracks the evolving forms of biographical writing in French culture, and proposes a reappraisal of biography in terms not only of its forms, but also of its functions. Although Ann Jefferson's book has powerful theoretical implications for both biography and the literary, it is first and foremost a history, offering a comprehensive new account of the development of French literature through this dual focus on the question of literature and on the relations between literature and biography. It offers original readings of major authors and texts in the light of these concerns, beginning with Rousseau and ending with 'life-writing' contemporary authors such as Pierre Michon and Jacques Roubaud. Other authors discussed include Mme de Stäel, Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Baudelaire, Nerval, Mallarmé, Schwob, Proust, Gide, Leiris, Sartre, Genet, Barthes, and Roger Laporte.
Biography and the Question of Literature in France
Biography and the Question of Literature in France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biography and the Question of Literature in France write by Ann Jefferson. This book was released on 2007-01-04. Biography and the Question of Literature in France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Containing critical readings of some major French authors in the light of the evolving relations between biography and literature, this book offers a history of French literature over a 300-year period, and also a discussion of biography - its forms, history, and functions
Biography in Theory
Biography in Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biography in Theory write by Wilhelm Hemecker. This book was released on 2017-08-07. Biography in Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Self Impression
Self Impression - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self Impression write by Max Saunders. This book was released on 2010-04-22. Self Impression available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life Volume II: The After-War World Max Saunders --
Theoretical Discussions of Biography
Theoretical Discussions of Biography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theoretical Discussions of Biography write by Hans Renders. This book was released on 2014-04-17. Theoretical Discussions of Biography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives. Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter.
