Biographies as Topic

Handbook autobiography / autofiction

by Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina

fromDe Gruyter reference

0 Type: Book

"Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and…

The Oxford handbook of ancient biography

fromOxford Handbooks

0 Type: Book

Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, …

The Oxford handbook of ancient biography

fromOxford Handbooks

0 Type: Book

Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, …

The Oxford handbook of ancient biography

fromOxford Handbooks

0 Type: Book

This handbook presents a wide-ranging survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representations to Late Antiquity. It offers in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, examines biographical depictions in different textual and visual media, and deals with the…

The Oxford handbook of ancient biography

fromOxford Handbooks

0 Type: Book

Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, …

Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Strayed, Cheryl

0 Type: Book

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Cres…

Wild: a Journey from Lost to Found

by Strayed, Cheryl

0 Type: Book

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Cres…

'Writing the lives of painters': biography and artistic identity in Britain 1760-1…

by Junod, Karen

fromOxford English monographs

0 Type: Book

This book explores the development of artists' biographies in the cultural context of 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. It argues that the proliferation of a myriad biographical forms mirrored the privileging of artistic originality and difference within an art world that ha…

Unbearable lightness: a story of loss and gain

by De Rossi, Portia

0 Type: Book

Known for her roles on the hit TV shows "Ally McBeal" and "Arrested Development," de Rossi delivers a revelatory and searing account of the years she spent secretly suffering from anorexia and bulimia, all the while living under the glare of Hollywood's bright lights.