Results 131 to 140 of about 948,822 (191)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
2022
As English developed as a university subject an increasing number of eye-catching theories about literature started to circulate, and these theories were often applied to literary texts in an unreflective and off-putting way. In response literary biographers started to position themselves as offering a more direct and somehow more humane way of ...
exaly +2 more sources
As English developed as a university subject an increasing number of eye-catching theories about literature started to circulate, and these theories were often applied to literary texts in an unreflective and off-putting way. In response literary biographers started to position themselves as offering a more direct and somehow more humane way of ...
exaly +2 more sources
1995
Is literary biography so widely read for popular, 'prurient' reasons, or for reputable intellectual reasons? Is it of interest only in so far as it illuminates a writer's work? How much can we know about a life, such as Shakespeare's, where the documentation is so scanty?
exaly +2 more sources
Is literary biography so widely read for popular, 'prurient' reasons, or for reputable intellectual reasons? Is it of interest only in so far as it illuminates a writer's work? How much can we know about a life, such as Shakespeare's, where the documentation is so scanty?
exaly +2 more sources
Diogenes, 1987
Although many people find fault with Freud, the horse that they flog is not yet dead. I should in fact maintain that we are all still under Freud's long shadow. Last autumn the American press reported a dreadful crime: a young man, egged on by his mother, murdered his father.
openaire +1 more source
Although many people find fault with Freud, the horse that they flog is not yet dead. I should in fact maintain that we are all still under Freud's long shadow. Last autumn the American press reported a dreadful crime: a young man, egged on by his mother, murdered his father.
openaire +1 more source
On Literary Biography and Biografiends
New Literary History, 1993HE LITERARY BIOGRAPHY is in the market now. One recognizes that there has been a boom of works of literary biography recently. Given the nature of markets in general, one feels inclined to believe that producers and consumers have reached a certain consensus on what literary biography is or should be. One suspects that the market, with all its research
openaire +1 more source
The embarrassment of literary biography
2015This dissertation argues that the embarrassments associated with literary biography in the nineteenth century should be understood as productive confrontations between affect and analysis. By definition, "embarrassment" can refer to the uncomfortable self-exposure one experiences from unanticipated social interactions, but it can also refer to the kind
openaire +1 more source