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Understanding biographies : on biographies in history and stories in biography / Birgitte Possing ; translated from the danish by Gaye Kynoch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Possing, Birgitte, 1952- author.
- Series:
- University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences ; vol. 538.
- University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences ; vol. 538
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography as a literary form.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2017.
- Contents:
- Preface
- What is biography?
- Where's the muscle?
- The biography dies, and is reborn
- Biographical definitions
- Biographical relevance and historical weight of the individual
- Biographical gender
- Who are the biographers : who are their protagonists?
- Biographical archetypes
- Attitudes, principles, and critics
- Conventions and innovations
- Dusting down and new biographies
- The elastic principles of biography
- The biographical triangle
- Friend, enemy, puppeteer or ghostwriter
- Biographical ethics
- Where is privacy
- A higher form of cannibalism?
- Tread softly : for you tread on my life
- Posthumous privacy
- Biographical muscle
- Four biographies, and how they were read, written and reviewed
- Four biographies
- Just for fun
- The Tautology of myth
- Life caught between light and darkness
- Who is right : the archive rat or the stylist?
- Acknowledgements
- Literature, references, index
- Literature
- Journals and newspapers
- References
- Index.
- ISBN:
- 8776749924
- 9788776749927
- OCLC:
- 966925160
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