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The Biographical Turn

Author : Hans Renders
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315469561
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Biographical Turn written by Hans Renders and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Biographical Turn showcases the latest research through which the field of biography is being explored. Fifteen leading scholars in the field present the biographical perspective as a scholarly research methodology, investigating the consequences of this bottom-up approach and illuminating its value for different disciplines. While biography has been on the rise in academia since the 1980s, this volume highlights the theoretical implications of the biographical turn that is changing the humanities. Chapters cover subjects such as gender, religion, race, new media and microhistory, presenting biography as as a research methodology suited not only for historians but also for explorations in areas including literature studies, sociology, economics and politics. By emphasizing agency, the use of primary sources and the critical analysis of context and historiography, this book demonstrates how biography can function as a scholarly methodology for a wide range of topics and fields of research. International in scope, The Biographical Turn emphasizes that the individual can have a lasting impact on the past and that lives that are now forgotten can be as important for the historical narrative as the biographies of kings and presidents. It is a valuable resource for all students of biography, history and historical theory.

The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science

Author : Prue Chamberlayne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134585373
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science written by Prue Chamberlayne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical research methods have become a useful and popular tool for contemporary social scientists. This book combines an exploration of the historical and philosophical origins of this important field of qualitative research with comparative examples of the different ways that biographical methods have been successfully applied internationally. Through these many illustrative examples of socio-biography in process the authors show how formal textual analysis, whilst uncovering hidden emotional defences, can also shed light on wider historical processes of societal transformation. Topics discussed include: *individual and linked lives *generational change *political influences on memory and identity *biographical work in reflexive societies *narrativity and empowerment in professional practice *ways of theorising and generalising from case-studies. Biographical Methods in the Social Sciences promotes debate and provides opportunities for students and researchers to widen their uses of narrative research.

The Biographical Turn

Author : Hans Renders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315469553
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Biographical Turn written by Hans Renders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Biographical Turn showcases the latest research through which the field of biography is being explored. Fifteen leading scholars in the field present the biographical perspective as a scholarly research methodology, investigating the consequences of this bottom-up approach and illuminating its value for different disciplines. While biography has been on the rise in academia since the 1980s, this volume highlights the theoretical implications of the biographical turn that is changing the humanities. Chapters cover subjects such as gender, religion, race, new media and microhistory, presenting biography as as a research methodology suited not only for historians but also for explorations in areas including literature studies, sociology, economics and politics. By emphasizing agency, the use of primary sources and the critical analysis of context and historiography, this book demonstrates how biography can function as a scholarly methodology for a wide range of topics and fields of research. International in scope, The Biographical Turn emphasizes that the individual can have a lasting impact on the past and that lives that are now forgotten can be as important for the historical narrative as the biographies of kings and presidents. It is a valuable resource for all students of biography, history and historical theory.

How to Make It as a Woman

Author : Alison Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226065464
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book How to Make It as a Woman written by Alison Booth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Theoretical Discussions of Biography

Author : Hans Renders
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004274707
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Discussions of Biography written by Hans Renders and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Unbuttoned

Author : Christopher Dummitt
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773549390
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Unbuttoned written by Christopher Dummitt and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly securing his privacy for good. Yet twenty-five years after King's death, the public was bombarded with stories about "Weird Willie," the prime minister who communed with ghosts and cavorted with prostitutes. Unbuttoned traces the transformation of the public’s knowledge and opinion of King's character, offering a compelling look at the changing way Canadians saw themselves and measured the importance of their leaders’ personal lives. Christopher Dummitt relates the strange posthumous tale of King's diary and details the specific decisions of King's literary executors. Along the way we learn about a thief in the public archives, stolen copies of King's diaries being sold on the black market, and an RCMP hunt for a missing diary linked to the search for Russian spies at the highest levels of the Canadian government. Analyzing writing and reporting about King, Dummitt concludes that the increasingly irreverent views of King can be explained by a fundamental historical transformation that occurred in the era in which King's diaries were released, when the rights revolution, Freud, 1960s activism, and investigative journalism were making self-revelation a cultural preoccupation. Presenting extensive archival research in a captivating narrative, Unbuttoned traces the rise of a political culture that privileged the individual as the ultimate source of truth, and made Canadians rethink what they wanted to know about politicians.

The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History

Author : Ivor Goodson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317665716
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History written by Ivor Goodson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, there has been a substantial turn towards narrative and life history study. The embrace of narrative and life history work has accompanied the move to postmodernism and post-structuralism across a wide range of disciplines: sociological studies, gender studies, cultural studies, social history; literary theory; and, most recently, psychology. Written by leading international scholars from the main contributing perspectives and disciplines, The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History seeks to capture the range and scope as well as the considerable complexity of the field of narrative study and life history work by situating these fields of study within the historical and contemporary context. Topics covered include: • The historical emergences of life history and narrative study • Techniques for conducting life history and narrative study • Identity and politics • Generational history • Social and psycho-social approaches to narrative history With chapters from expert contributors, this volume will prove a comprehensive and authoritative resource to students, researchers and educators interested in narrative theory, analysis and interpretation.

Steve Jobs

Author : Walter Isaacson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648545
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.

Schopenhauer

Author : David E. Cartwright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521825989
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Schopenhauer written by David E. Cartwright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive biography of Schopenhauer written in English. Placing him in his historical and philosophical contexts, David E. Cartwright tells the story of Schopenhauer's life to convey the full range of his philosophy. He offers a fully documented portrait in which he explores Schopenhauer's fractured family life, his early formative influences, his critical loyalty to Kant, his personal interactions with Fichte and Goethe, his ambivalent relationship to Schelling, his contempt for Hegel, his struggle to make his philosophy known, and his reaction to his late-arriving fame.

Biography and the Black Atlantic

Author : Lisa A. Lindsay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812245466
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Biography and the Black Atlantic written by Lisa A. Lindsay and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading historians reflect on the recent biographical turn in studies of slavery and the modern African diaspora. This collection presents vivid glimpses into the lives of remarkable enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

Presidents

Author : Neil A. Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108168
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Presidents written by Neil A. Hamilton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of American presidents are listed in order of election to office. Includes personal and professional information, timelines of life, and unusual facts.

Biographical Objects

Author : Janet Hoskins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136678646
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Objects written by Janet Hoskins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and self-historicizing. Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways. Biographical Objects is an ethnography of persons which takes the form of a study of things, showing how the object is not only a metaphor for the self but a pivot for reflexivity and introspection, a tool for autobiographic elaboration, a way of knowing oneself through things.

The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law

Author : Roger K. Newman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300113005
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law written by Roger K. Newman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others

SAGE Biographical Research

Author : John Goodwin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446275922
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book SAGE Biographical Research written by John Goodwin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical research may take a range of forms and may vary in its application and approach but has the unified and coherent aim to give 'voice' to individuals. The central concern of this collection is to assemble articles (from sociology, social psychology, education, health, criminology, social gerontology, epidemiology, management and organizational research) that illustrate the full range of debates, methods and techniques that can be combined under the heading 'biographical research'. Volume One: Biographical Research: Starting Points, Debates and Approaches explores the different biographical methods currently used while locating these within the history of social science methods. Volume Two: Biographical Interviews, Oral Histories and Life Narratives focuses on the more established, interview-based, biographical research methods and considers the analytical strategies used for interview-based biographical research Volume Three: Forms of Life Writing: Letters, Diaries and Auto/Biography considers the value of 'data' contained within letters, diaries and auto/biography and illustrates how this data has been analyzed to reveal biographies and their social context. Volume Four: Other Documents of Life: Photographs, Cyber Documents and Ephemera focuses on the 'other' human documents and objects, like photographs, cyber-documents (emails, blogs, social networking sites, webpages) and other ephemera (such as official documents) that are used extensively in biographical research.

The Biographical Treasury

Author : Samuel Maunder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biographical Treasury written by Samuel Maunder and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure

Author : C. D. Rose
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 161219379X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure written by C. D. Rose and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.

Mozart

Author : Franz Xaver Niemetschek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845452313
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Mozart written by Franz Xaver Niemetschek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798 Franz Xaver Niemetschek published this biography of Mozart - the only one written by an eyewitness and authorized by Mozart's widow Konstanze. It includes a dedication to Haydn and is one of the earliest specimens of musical biography which, compared with other branches of biography, was still in its infancy even in the latter part of the 19th century. This first biography of Mozart is not only an important document of music history but also a loving and intimate portrait of the world-renowned composer. Based on documents, letters and other original sources, Mozart: The First Biography conveys a vivid picture of the social and courtly life that formed the background of Mozart's sheer magical talents as a composer and virtuoso.