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Biographies of American literary figures did not come into currency until the country began to explore the persons and conditions that made that emerging literature possible. Walt Whitman and Mark Twain appointed authorized biographers, Horace Traubel and Alfred Bigelow Paine, who began publishing multivolume works in 1892 and 1912, respectively.
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Biographies of American literary figures did not come into currency until the country began to explore the persons and conditions that made that emerging literature possible. Walt Whitman and Mark Twain appointed authorized biographers, Horace Traubel and Alfred Bigelow Paine, who began publishing multivolume works in 1892 and 1912, respectively.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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