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The Biographical Turn : Lives in history
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The biographical turn: Biography as critical method in the humanities and in society -- Setting the stage: theoretical implications of a biographical approach --...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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London
: Taylor and Francis
, 2016
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=4684242 |
| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als:
The Biographical Turn : Lives in history |
| E-Book-Pakete: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The biographical turn: Biography as critical method in the humanities and in society -- Setting the stage: theoretical implications of a biographical approach -- Elaborating the biographical turn -- Biography as a critical methodology in the humanities -- Notes -- Section 1: The biographical turn in the humanities -- Chapter 2: Biography as corrective -- Historians turning to biography -- Biographical mission -- Challenging misrepresentations -- Higher status -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The plurality of the past: Historical time and the rediscovery of biography -- Historical and individual time -- Historical plurality -- Biography and social interstices -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The life is never over: Biography as a microhistorical approach -- The methods of microhistory -- Is small beautiful? -- The individual as a research target -- The gap in the narrative -- Contextualisation -- The singularisation of history -- Biography as microhistorical approach -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Personalised history: On biofiction, source criticism and the critical value of biography -- Biography Studies and the subjective element in historiography -- History as ongoing process -- Overcoming limited access to sources -- The tragedy of the distinction between fiction and non-fiction -- Source criticism and the historian as source -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The life effect: Literature studies and the biographical perspective -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Biography as a concept of thought: On the premises of biographical research and narrative -- Biography Studies as a web of problems -- Biography as storytelling -- Biography as a concept of thought -- Notes -- Section 2: The biographical turn in fields of knowledge. Chapter 8: Biographies as multipliers: The First World War as turning point in the lives of modernist artists -- Turning points -- Becoming an art theorist -- Unique or representative -- History in the head -- Notes -- Chapter 9: 'Honest politics': A biographical perspective on economic expertise as a political style -- Value-free economics in the post-war world -- Expertise politics in the Netherlands: reflections on style and substance -- Economic expertise and the end of ideology -- Economics and biography -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Rediscovering agency in the Atlantic: A biographical approach linking entrepreneurial spirit and overseas companies -- Biography and microhistory in the Atlantic -- Social capital and the entrepreneurial spirit in the Atlantic world -- Agency in the Atlantic world -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Building bridges to past centuries: Religion and empathy in early modern biography -- Empathy and historical understanding -- Interpretation: interaction between perspectives -- Reyner van Dorth: text in context -- Agency: the connection between mentality and behaviour -- Notes -- Chapter 12: Palatable and unpalatable leaders: Apartheid and post-Apartheid Afrikaner biography -- A nation adrift -- A narrative of nationalist heroes -- History and biography -- New heroes, new histories -- The biographical turn -- Notes -- Section 3: The biographical turn in academia and society -- Chapter 13: Biography is not a selfie: Authorisation as the creeping transition from autobiography to biography -- Notes -- Chapter 14: What are we turning from? Research and ideology in biography and life writing -- The voice of the public - what Life Writing and biography researchers actually read -- Life Writing and biography: the theoretical echo boom -- Notes -- Chapter 15: Liberation from low dark space: Biography beside and beyond the academy. Notes -- Chapter 16: From academic historian to popular biographer: Musings on the practical poetics of biography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (239 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781315469560 |
