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Comparative Criticism : Lives of the Disciplines: comparative biography. Volume 25 / Elinor Shaffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaffer, Elinor, Author.
- 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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