Literary Lives : : Biography and the Search for Understanding / / David Ellis.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748613724);Popular though biography is, it has as yet received very little critical attention. What nearly all biographies offer is an understanding of their subjects and an explanation of their behaviour. In this book David Ellis, author of the acclaimed...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Lives without Theory
- Chapter 2: Biography and Explanation
- Chapter 3: Ancestors
- Chapter 4: Primal Scenes
- Chapter 5: Body Matters
- Chapter 6: The Sociological Imagination
- Chapter 7: History, Chance and Self-determination
- Chapter 8: Compatibility, Sartre and Long Biographies
- Chapter 9: 'Dignity and Uses of Biography'
- Notes
- Index