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Understanding biographies : on biographies in history and stories in biography / Birgitte Possing ; translated from the Danish by Gaye Kynoch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Danish Series: University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences ; vol. 538 | University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences ; v. 538.Publisher: Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2017Description: 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 8776749924
  • 9788776749927
Uniform titles:
  • Ind i biografien. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.93592 23
LOC classification:
  • CT22 .P6813 2017
Contents:
Index. Who is right : the archive rat or the stylist? -- Where's the muscle? -- The biography dies, and is reborn -- Biographical definitions -- Biographical relevance and historical weight of the individual -- Biographical gender -- Who are the biographers - who are their protagonists? -- Biographical archetypes -- Attitudes, principles, and critics -- Conventions and innovations -- Dusting down and new biographies -- The elastic principles of biography -- The biographical triangle -- Friend, enemy, puppeteer or ghostwriter -- Biographical ethics -- Where is privacy -- A higher form of cannibalism? -- Tread softly - for you tread on my life -- Posthumous privacy -- Biographical muscle -- Four biographies, and how they were read, written and reviewed -- Four biographies -- Just for fun -- The Tautology of myth -- Life caught between light and darkness -- Who is right : the archive rat or the stylist? -- Acknowledgements -- Literature, references, index -- Literature -- Journals and newspapers -- References -- Index.
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Revised and translated version of the author's Ind i biografien published in 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-227) and index.

Index. Who is right : the archive rat or the stylist? -- Where's the muscle? -- The biography dies, and is reborn -- Biographical definitions -- Biographical relevance and historical weight of the individual -- Biographical gender -- Who are the biographers - who are their protagonists? -- Biographical archetypes -- Attitudes, principles, and critics -- Conventions and innovations -- Dusting down and new biographies -- The elastic principles of biography -- The biographical triangle -- Friend, enemy, puppeteer or ghostwriter -- Biographical ethics -- Where is privacy -- A higher form of cannibalism? -- Tread softly - for you tread on my life -- Posthumous privacy -- Biographical muscle -- Four biographies, and how they were read, written and reviewed -- Four biographies -- Just for fun -- The Tautology of myth -- Life caught between light and darkness -- Who is right : the archive rat or the stylist? -- Acknowledgements -- Literature, references, index -- Literature -- Journals and newspapers -- References -- Index.

Translated from the Danish.

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