Comparative Criticism : : Lives of the Disciplines: comparative biography. Volume 25 / / Elinor Shaffer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Shaffer, Elinor,
• MitwirkendeR: Bowie, Malcolm,; Conley, Katharine,; Desnos, Robert,; Harrison, Brian,; Herbert, George,; Mandelbrote, Scott,; Perrey, Beate,; Rao, D. Venkat,; Shaffer, Elinor,; Tihanov, Galin,; Todd, Janet,; Wiley, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; CONTRIBUTORS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; Frontispiece: Study after Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, Francis Bacon, 1953 Oil on canvas, 153 × 118,1 cm. DACS London 2003 --; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Dances of life and death: comparative biography --; PART I The lives of the disciplines: comparative biography --; Comparative biography and the DNB --; Ends of Learning: Tradition and the Problem of Inheritance. WITH EXCERPTS FROM THE LAST BRAHMIN BY R - ANI SHIVASHANKARA SHARMA TRANSLATED FROM THE TELUGU WITH AN INTRODUCTION --; Suicide and biography --; Revising Hegel's Phenomenology on the left: Luk´acs, Koj`eve, Hyppolite --; Proust and Italian painting --; Visual musical poetry: the feeling of Pallaksch in Bacon, Clean, and Kurtág --; 'A Relic of an age still capable of a Romantic outlook': Musical biography and The Master Musicians Series, 1899-1906 --; PART II Literature and translations --; Winners of the BCLA/BCLT 2002 Translation Competition --; Introduction to Against the Grain --; Against the Grain --; Latin poems --; PART III Essay reviews --; A Mind-body problem. On Cambridge Scientific Minds --; Composing and decomposing the corpus of William Beckford: French and English Beckford --; Books and periodicals received
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474472500; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474472500
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elinor Shaffer.

Volume 25 of the journal Comparative Criticism This journal special issue considers what can be expected of life-writing in the aftermath of theory, which placed biography at the bottom of the critical class.