Fear of Theory: Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography.

David Veltman; Hans Renders

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Fear of Theory: Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography.

David Veltman (Redacteur), Hans Renders (Redacteur)

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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.

Originele taal-2	English
Uitgeverij	Brill
Aantal pagina's	276
ISBN van elektronische versie	978-90-04-49889-1
ISBN van geprinte versie	978-90-04-49854-9
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004498891
Status	Published - 2-dec.-2021

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Naam	Biography Studies
Uitgeverij	Brill
Volume	3
ISSN van geprinte versie	2468-2497

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