Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing: Egodocuments and History Series, cartea 7
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004270145
ISBN-10: 9004270140
Pagini: 273
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Revised, Augmen
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Egodocuments and History Series
ISBN-10: 9004270140
Pagini: 273
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Revised, Augmen
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Egodocuments and History Series
Cuprins
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Nigel Hamilton
Note on the Revised and Augmented Edition
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies
Hans Renders & Binne de Haan
Section I: Historiography of Biography Studies
2 Towards Traditions and Nations
Binne de Haan & Hans Renders
3 Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction
Hans Renders
4 The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century
James Walter
Section II: Biography and History
5 The Uses of Biography
Giovanni Levi
6 The Role of the Individual in History. Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Sabina Loriga
7 Contemporary Values of Life. Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century
Hans Renders
Section III: Biography and Microhistory
8 What Is Micro in Microhistory?
Matti Peltonen
9 Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge
Richard D. Brown
10 The Limits of Representativeness. Biography, Life Writing and Microhistory Hans Renders
11 Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It
Carlo Ginzburg
Section IV: Biography and Life Writing
12Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing
Hans Renders
13 The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing
Binne de Haan
14 Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice
Marlene Kadar
Appendices
15 Biography
Anonymous
16 Sex in Biography
Ernest Boyd
17 The Personal in the Political Biography
Hans Renders
18 The Biographical Method
Hans Renders
19Why Genealogy and Biography Are Not Kin
Hans Renders
20 A Nobel Prize for Biography
Nigel Hamilton
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Nigel Hamilton
Note on the Revised and Augmented Edition
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies
Hans Renders & Binne de Haan
Section I: Historiography of Biography Studies
2 Towards Traditions and Nations
Binne de Haan & Hans Renders
3 Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction
Hans Renders
4 The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century
James Walter
Section II: Biography and History
5 The Uses of Biography
Giovanni Levi
6 The Role of the Individual in History. Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Sabina Loriga
7 Contemporary Values of Life. Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century
Hans Renders
Section III: Biography and Microhistory
8 What Is Micro in Microhistory?
Matti Peltonen
9 Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge
Richard D. Brown
10 The Limits of Representativeness. Biography, Life Writing and Microhistory Hans Renders
11 Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It
Carlo Ginzburg
Section IV: Biography and Life Writing
12Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing
Hans Renders
13 The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing
Binne de Haan
14 Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice
Marlene Kadar
Appendices
15 Biography
Anonymous
16 Sex in Biography
Ernest Boyd
17 The Personal in the Political Biography
Hans Renders
18 The Biographical Method
Hans Renders
19Why Genealogy and Biography Are Not Kin
Hans Renders
20 A Nobel Prize for Biography
Nigel Hamilton
Bibliography
Recenzii
"Ils entendent explicitement contribuer à l’émergence des études biographiques comme nouvelle discipline à part entière [...] En conclusion, il convient de saluer les grands mérites de cet ouvrage fort bien fait" ("They explicitly intend to contribute to the emergence of Biography Studies as a new discipline in its own right [...] In conclusion, we should acknowledge the great merits of this well-made, strong book."
Joanny Moulin, Aix-Marseille Université
“Theoretical Discussions of Biography is a welcome addition for university courses on the history and theory of history and surveys of historiography. [...] According to Renders and De Haan, a biography preferably studies a specific figure to test generally recognized truths on a society and culture. Renders elaborates this thesis in his article ‘The limits of representativeness. Biography, Life Writing and Microhistory’ and by doing this also brings together some themes from other contributions. This article provides a practical research agenda for the future.”
Christoph De Spiegeleer, Free University of Brussels, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 10(2013)3, p. 115-116.
“In its range and compass Theoretical Discussions of Biography illustrates the new compass and depth which Biographical Studies can offer to teachers, students and practitioners.”
Nigel Hamilton, Senior Fellow John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston and first President of Biographers International Organization (BIO)
“To take issue with Renders, however, is not to discount his perceptive and wide-ranging contributions to an understanding of biography and biographical method. Only a scholar with formidable learning could have assembled an anthology that is so challenging on so many aspects of biography.”
Carl Rollyson, Baruch College New York, in: Biography 36(2013)2, p. 392-395.
Joanny Moulin, Aix-Marseille Université
“Theoretical Discussions of Biography is a welcome addition for university courses on the history and theory of history and surveys of historiography. [...] According to Renders and De Haan, a biography preferably studies a specific figure to test generally recognized truths on a society and culture. Renders elaborates this thesis in his article ‘The limits of representativeness. Biography, Life Writing and Microhistory’ and by doing this also brings together some themes from other contributions. This article provides a practical research agenda for the future.”
Christoph De Spiegeleer, Free University of Brussels, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 10(2013)3, p. 115-116.
“In its range and compass Theoretical Discussions of Biography illustrates the new compass and depth which Biographical Studies can offer to teachers, students and practitioners.”
Nigel Hamilton, Senior Fellow John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston and first President of Biographers International Organization (BIO)
“To take issue with Renders, however, is not to discount his perceptive and wide-ranging contributions to an understanding of biography and biographical method. Only a scholar with formidable learning could have assembled an anthology that is so challenging on so many aspects of biography.”
Carl Rollyson, Baruch College New York, in: Biography 36(2013)2, p. 392-395.
Notă biografică
Hans Renders, Ph.D. (1998), University of Tilburg, is Professor History and Theory of Biography and director of the Biography Institute, both at the University of Groningen. He has published studies on the theme of biography in various international journals. Binne de Haan, is a Ph.D. candidate at the Biography Institute of the University of Groningen. In his thesis he analyses the relationship between biography and historiography, specifically microhistory.
Descriere
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, specifically by connecting biography with microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing.