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Author: Melanie Nolan Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0429760833 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 472
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Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.
Author: Melanie Nolan Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0429760833 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 472
Book Description
Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.
Author: Michael Holroyd Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393344304 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 234
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A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees. After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family. The result was Basil Street Blues, published in 1999. But rather than the story being over, it was in fact only beginning. As letters from readers started to pour in, the author discovered extraordinary narratives that his own memoir had only touched on. Mosaic is Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories: the murder of the fearsome headmaster of his school; the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist Jacques Prévert; and a letter about the beauty of his mother that provides a clue to a decade-long affair. Funny, touching, and wry, Mosaic shows how other people's lives, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences.
Author: Jane McVeigh Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319583832 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 219
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This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the people described in these biographies, and more concerned with how these stories have been told. It aims to have a conversation with British biographers, particularly Michael Holroyd, Richard Holmes, Hermione Lee and Claire Tomalin, to make their voices heard, to set them talking. It understands biography as an ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their subjects, but between biographers and their readers. This is also a study of haunting, in which we haunt the lives of others to help us come to a better understanding of our own.
Author: Holroyd Publisher: Random House ISBN: 009954895X Category : Biographers Languages : en Pages : 586
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Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he wasn't interested in exploring his own family's history until the death of his parents.'Basil Street Blues' is part detective story, part family memoir & part an oblique voyage of self-discovery. In his follow-up volume, 'Mosaic', he delves deeper into his family history.
Author: Michael Holroyd Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393321746 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 342
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Michael Holroyd is a distinguished biographer, but was never interested in exploring his own family's history until his parents died in the 1980s. This encouraged him to find out more about his parents, their stories, and their origins.
Author: Nick Rennison Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408113953 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 497
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