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The Biography of Literary Vernacularization
2016Supplies the remembered biographical data and likely public memory of Chakradhar and Jnandev that help shape the context of the four chapters that follow. The chapter also argues that meaning coheres around these received biographies in a way that stabilizes their “value” in a particular kind of spiritual economy of the age.
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Hermeneutics and Literary Biography
boundary 2, 1984If we take humanism to be a particular concept of the individual (we might say that humanism is the belief in the autonomous subject), then we may trace the modern concept of biography and autobiography as the portrayal of the growth of consciousness back to nineteenth-century historiography and philosophy.
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Taxidermy’s Literary Biographies
2018A key problem with animal biographies—their inability to represent a single historical subject—emerges through the representation of taxidermy in literary history. Fiction writers from Charles Dickens to H.G. Wells to Ernest Hemingway sow a seediness into taxidermists that blossoms in recent bestsellers by Tea Obreht and Kate Mosse, where practitioners
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The Basic Assumptions of Literary Biography
Biography, 1978The difficulties of writing a literary biography only begin with awareness of the complexity of any human subject and the uncertainties of biographical and historical research. The basic assumptions upon which the genre of literary biography is based, assumptions about the unity, development, and anecdotal nature of life, can be seen to reflect the ...
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Sentiments, networks, literary biography
2018<p>In a field as old as Classics, it difficult to find truly innovative approaches to literary works that have been studied for millennia, and it only becomes more difficult to find something new to explore in works as fundamental to the field as Marcus Tullius Cicero’s.
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