Gebundenes Buch

Fear of Theory

Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography

Beschreibung

In historiography, many interesting theoretical perspectives on biography have emerged in recent years, from forensics to structure and microhistory. Biographers themselves, though, often fear the study of the genre - needlessly, as these eighteen engaging new essays demonstrate.

Autor

Hans Renders is Professor in History and Theory of Biography at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). He has written two biographies and has published on biographical theory in various international journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the series Biography Studies. David Veltman recently finished his PhD-thesis on the artist Felix de Boeck. He worked on this book at the Biography Institute (University of Groningen). David has a MA in modern Dutch literature. He published before in Biography. An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9789004498549
• ISBN-10: 9004498540
• Artikelnr.: 62433533