Biography in Theory

Key Texts with Commentaries
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-050161-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

Reihe: De Gruyter Textbook

This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21st centuries, the reader includes programmatic texts by authors such as Herder, Carlyle, Dilthey, Proust, Freud, Kracauer, Woolf and Bourdieu. Each text is accompanied by a commentary placing its contribution in critical context. Ideal for use in undergraduate seminars, this reader may also be of interest for academic researchers in the areas of literary studies and history aiming to get an overview of historical questions in biographical theory. This revised and updated English language edition also includes new translations of texts by J. G. Herder and Stefan Zweig, as well as an introductory discussion on the possibility of a ‘theory of biography’. Note: Due to copyright reasons, the chapter "Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971)" (pp. 175–177) by Roland Barthes could not be included in the ebook.

Zielgruppe

Students and teachers of Literary Studies and History

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hemecker, Wilhelm

Saunders, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Wilhelm W. Hemecker and Edward Saunders, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography, Vienna, Austria.