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Author : John Maynard Keynes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368655469
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)
Download or read book Essays in Biography written by John Maynard Keynes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Joseph Epstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604190687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Essays in Biography written by Joseph Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. How easy it is today to forget the simple delight of reading for no intended purpose. Each of the 39 pieces in this book is a pure pleasure to read.
Author : Lytton Strachey
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Biographical Essays written by Lytton Strachey and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1949 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains thirty-five sketches about Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, Sarah Bernhardt, and a number of delightful eccentrics, including Lady Hester Stanhope."--Back cover
Author : Maarten Delbeke
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271029013
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Bernini's Biographies written by Maarten Delbeke and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject of two monographic biographies published shortly after his death in 1680: one by the Florentine connoisseur and writer Filippo Baldinucci (1682), and the second by Bernini's son, Domenico (1713). This interdisciplinary collection of essays by historians of art and literature marks the first sustained examination of the two biographies, first and foremost as texts. A substantial introductory essay considers each biography's author, genesis, and foundational role in the study of Bernini. Nine essays combining art-historical research with insights from philology, literary history, and art and literary theory offer major new insights into the multifarious connections between biography, art history, and aesthetics, inviting readers to rethink Bernini's life, art, and milieu. Contributors are Eraldo Bellini, Heiko Damm, John D. Lyons, Sarah McPhee, Tomaso Montanari, Rudolf Preimesberger, Robert Williams, and the editors.Maarten Delbeke is Assistant Professor of architectural history and theory at the universities of Ghent and Leiden. Formerly the Scott Opler Fellow in Architectural History at Worcester College (Oxford), he is the author of several articles and a forthcoming book on Seicento art and theory.Evonne Levy is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Toronto. She is also the author of Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque (2004).
Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691188602
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Nose written by Hermione Lee and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a private life from the few articles that linger after death? How do we choose what gets left out? This intriguing and witty collection of essays by an internationally acclaimed biographer looks at how biography deals with myths and legends, what goes missing and what can't be proved in the story of a life. Virginia Woolf's Nose presents a variety of case-studies, in which literary biographers are faced with gaps and absences, unprovable stories and ambiguities surrounding their subjects. By looking at stories about Percy Bysshe Shelley's shriveled, burnt heart found pressed between the pages of a book, Jane Austen's fainting spell, Samuel Pepys's lobsters, and the varied versions of Virginia Woolf's life and death, preeminent biographer Hermione Lee considers how biographers deal with and often utilize these missing body parts, myths, and contested data to "fill in the gaps" of a life story. In "Shelley's Heart and Pepys's Lobsters," an essay dealing with missing parts and biographical legends, Hermione Lee discusses one of the most complicated and emotionally charged examples of the contested use of biographical sources. "Jane Austen Faints" takes five competing versions of the same dramatic moment in the writer's life to ask how biography deals with the private lives of famous women. "Virginia Woolf's Nose" looks at the way this legendary author's life has been translated through successive transformations, from biography to fiction to film, and suggests there can be no such thing as a definitive version of a life. Finally, "How to End It All" analyzes the changing treatment of deathbed scenes in biography to show how biographical conventions have shifted, and asks why the narrators and readers of life-stories feel the need to give special meaning and emphasis to endings. Virginia Woolf's Nose sheds new light on the way biographers bring their subjects to life as physical beings, and offers captivating new insights into the drama of "life-writing". Virginia Woolf's Nose is a witty, eloquent, and funny text by a renowned biographer whose sensitivity to the art of telling a story about a human life is unparalleled--and in creating it, Lee articulates and redefines the parameters of her craft.
Author : James L. Conyers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317475798
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Black Lives written by James L. Conyers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this text comprise biographical sketches of previously unknown (or lesser known) African-Americans, among them General Daniel Chappie James Jr; William Levi Dawson (composer); Vinnette Carroll (director and playwright); and Elizabeth Ross Haynes (political speaker and activist).
Author : D.G. Brian Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136334378
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Pioneers in Marketing written by D.G. Brian Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneers in Marketing: A Collection of Biographical Essays discusses eight historically important marketing scholars whose careers collectively spanned over 100 years. An introductory chapter describes the role of biography in the study of marketing thought, and introduces the eight subjects in this collection. Subsequent chapters describe the lives of Edward David Jones, Simon Litman, Henry Charles Taylor, Percival White, George Burton Hotchkiss, Theodore N. Beckman, David D. Monieson, and William R. Davidson, focusing on their intellectual and professional contributions to the marketing discipline. The biographies are based on rare archival materials, some personal interviews, and analysis of the subjects’ major works. The final chapter draws lessons from the collection for marketing students and teachers. Several important discoveries are reported that suggest opportunities for further research. These stories will inform and inspire students of marketing.
Author : Michael Shortland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521433235
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Telling Lives in Science written by Michael Shortland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects together original essays by leading historians of science on the nature and development of scientific biography.
Author : Sir William Osler
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press American branch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)
Download or read book An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays written by Sir William Osler and published by New York : Oxford University Press American branch. This book was released on 1908 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marlene Kadar
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802067838
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Essays on Life Writing written by Marlene Kadar and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars.
Author : Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781443824217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (242 download)
Download or read book John Dos Passos written by Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this book draw attention to the close, though sometimes ambiguous, relationship between biography, aesthetics, ideology, social critique and gender in Dos Passosâ (TM)s writings. Most of the essays are important additions to the ongoing scholarly critique on the authorâ (TM)s works, considered in terms of innovative literary techniques and the myriad of literary representations, as well as of core thematic issues that have helped define Dos Passos both as a towering figure of American Modernism, and outspoken political and social critic. Further to scrutinizing Dos Passosâ (TM)s biographic aspects and literary innovations, the book also offers invaluable insights into the historiographical, ideological and social dimensions of the American (and to some extent European) society of the time, dominated by unprecedented social and political instability that shattered the â ~American Dreamâ (TM) of liberty and egalitarianism, and by international warfare. The present collection of essays is a worthy contribution to the growing body of critical studies on John Dos Passosâ (TM)s writings, which indisputably endorse the status of his literary name.
Author : Derek Edward Dawson Beales
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book History and Biography written by Derek Edward Dawson Beales and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1981 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Maynard Keynes
Publisher : London : R. Hart-Davis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Two Memoirs written by John Maynard Keynes and published by London : R. Hart-Davis. This book was released on 1949 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra J. McEntire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429559615
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Margery Kempe written by Sandra J. McEntire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at one of the most appealing mystics and pilgrims of 15th-century England. The book looks at Margery Kempe, and her book The Book of Margery Kempe, thought to be the first vernacular autobiography in medieval Britain. Original essays in the book examines Kempe's spirituality, cultural context, and the autobiography itself, The Book of Margery Kempe. The essays in the book represent detail literary analysis on Kempe and the critical history of her words.
Author : Kylie Cardell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000505774
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Essays in Life Writing written by Kylie Cardell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases a unique, innovative form for contemporary life narrative scholarship. Life Narrative is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field defined through attention to diverse styles of personal and auto/biographical narration and to subjectivity and ethics in acts of self-representation. The essay is a uniquely sympathetic mode for such scholarship, responsive to diverse methods, genres, and concepts and enabling a flexible, hybrid critical and creative approach. Many of the essays curated for this volume are by the authors of creative works of life writing who are seeking to reflect critically on disciplinary issues connected to practice, ethics, audience, or genre. Others show academics from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds engaged in creative critical self-reflection, using methods of cultural analysis, ethnography, or embodied scholarship to address foundational and emerging issues and concepts in relation to identity, experience, or subjectivity. Essays in Life Writing positions the essay as a unique nexus of creative and critical practice, available to academics publishing peer-reviewed scholarly work from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, and a form of scholarship that is contributing in exciting and vigorous ways to the development of new knowledge in Life Narrative as a field. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Life Writing.
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African American Autobiography written by William L. Andrews and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best critical essays reflecting both older and newer perspectives. Will also contain an introduction by the editor (a respected scholar in the field), a chronology of the author's life, and an annotated bibliography.
Author : James Olney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856310
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Autobiography written by James Olney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
