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Fear of Theory: Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004498549)
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Recent academic historiography has seen a profusion of theoretical perspectives on biography, both analytical and descriptive. Yet many biographers still fear 'theory' as antithetical to accessible narration of real lives.
This volume presents eighteen essays by more than a dozen scholars and practitioners from Australia, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, and the United States who seek to banish such fear. Writing with candor, wide experience and familiarity with modern teaching, they examine the riches greeting the biographer willing to think more deeply about biography: its inner workings and rationale in a world still hungry for fact and truth.
Contributors are: Nigel Hamilton, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, Emma McEwin, Melanie Nolan, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Eric Palmen, Hans Renders, Carl Rollyson, David T. Roth, István M. Szijártó, Jeffrey Tyssens, and David Veltman.
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Author: Hans Renders
ISBN-10: 9004498540
ISBN-13: 9789004498549
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2021
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Recent academic historiography has seen a profusion of theoretical perspectives on biography, both analytical and descriptive. Yet many biographers still fear 'theory' as antithetical to accessible narration of real lives.
This volume presents eighteen essays by more than a dozen scholars and practitioners from Australia, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, and the United States who seek to banish such fear. Writing with candor, wide experience and familiarity with modern teaching, they examine the riches greeting the biographer willing to think more deeply about biography: its inner workings and rationale in a world still hungry for fact and truth.
Contributors are: Nigel Hamilton, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, Emma McEwin, Melanie Nolan, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Eric Palmen, Hans Renders, Carl Rollyson, David T. Roth, István M. Szijártó, Jeffrey Tyssens, and David Veltman.
See inside the book.
Author: Hans Renders
ISBN-10: 9004498540
ISBN-13: 9789004498549
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2021
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
By Hans Renders
xHans Renders is Professor in History and Theory of Biography at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). He has written two biographies and has published on biographical theory in various international journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the series Biography Studies.
David Veltman recently finished his PhD-thesis on the artist Felix de Boeck. He worked on this book at the Biography Institute (University of Groningen). David has a MA in modern Dutch literature. He published before in Biography. An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.
David Veltman recently finished his PhD-thesis on the artist Felix de Boeck. He worked on this book at the Biography Institute (University of Groningen). David has a MA in modern Dutch literature. He published before in Biography. An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.
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