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Comparative Criticism : Lives of the Disciplines: comparative biography. Volume 25 / Elinor Shaffer.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shaffer, Elinor, Author.
Contributor:
Bowie, Malcolm, 1943-2007, Contributor.
Conley, Katharine, Contributor.
Desnos, Robert, Contributor.
Harrison, Brian, Contributor.
Herbert, George, Contributor.
Mandelbrote, Scott, Contributor.
Perrey, Beate, Contributor.
Venkat Rao, D., Contributor.
Shaffer, Elinor, Contributor.
Tihanov, Galin, Contributor.
Todd, Janet, 1942- Contributor.
Wiley, Christopher, Contributor.
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Language Note:
In English.
Summary:
Volume 25 of the journal Comparative Criticism This journal special issue considers what can be expected of life-writing in the aftermath of theory, which placed biography at the bottom of the critical class.
Contents:
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Frontispiece: Study after Velasquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, Francis Bacon, 1953 Oil on canvas, 153 × 118,1 cm. DACS London 2003
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION Dances of life and death: comparative biography
PART I The lives of the disciplines: comparative biography
Comparative biography and the DNB
Ends of Learning: Tradition and the Problem of Inheritance. WITH EXCERPTS FROM THE LAST BRAHMIN BY R - ANI SHIVASHANKARA SHARMA TRANSLATED FROM THE TELUGU WITH AN INTRODUCTION
Suicide and biography
Revising Hegel’s Phenomenology on the left: Luk´acs, Koj`eve, Hyppolite
Proust and Italian painting
Visual musical poetry: the feeling of Pallaksch in Bacon, Clean, and Kurtág
‘A Relic of an age still capable of a Romantic outlook’: Musical biography and The Master Musicians Series, 1899-1906
PART II Literature and translations
Winners of the BCLA/BCLT 2002 Translation Competition
Introduction to Against the Grain
Against the Grain
Latin poems
PART III Essay reviews
A Mind-body problem. On Cambridge Scientific Minds
Composing and decomposing the corpus of William Beckford: French and English Beckford
Books and periodicals received
Notes:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
ISBN:
1-4744-7250-8

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