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Clasificación LC
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CT21
D53 2020
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Acervo
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Todos los ejemplares
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ISBN
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 9789004428126 (hardback)
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Autor
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Renders, Hans, editor
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Título
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Different lives : global perspectives on biography in public cultures and societies / edited by Hans Renders, David Veltman ; in collaboration with Madelon Nanninga-Franssen ; Nigel Hamilton ... (and other) authors.
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Pie de Imprenta
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2020.
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Descr. Física
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xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Serie
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( Biography studies ; 1 )
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Nota General
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"Many of the contributors to this volume presented their papers at the conference Different Lives: Global Perspectives on Biography in Public Cultures and Societies. This conference was organized in September 2018 at the University of Groningen by Hans Renders, Madelon Nanninga-Franssen and David Veltman, with support of the Biography Institute, the Biography Society and the Biographers International Organization."--Acknowledgements.
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Bibliografía
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-260) and index.
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Contenido
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Different lives in a global world / Hans Renders -- Truth, lies, and fake truth: the future of biography / Nigel Hamilton -- Historical biography in Canada: historians, publishers and the public / Daniel R. Meister -- Biography as discourse: South African biography in the post-apartheid era / Lindie Koorts -- ’La pauvre Belguique’: how a debate over the repression after second World War informed a biographical tradition in Belgium / David Veltman -- Biography in Spain: a historical and historiographic perspective / María Jesús González -- The CHinese sense of self and biographical narrative an overview / KerryBrown -- Double Dutch: the art of presidential biography / Carl Rollyson -- Biography in Australia: Different yet the same? All connected Flatland? / Melanie Nolan -- Writing lives in contemporary Italy / Yannick Gouchan -- Hidden and forbidden issues in works of Iranian biography / Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian -- From reticence to revelation: biography in New Zealand / Doug Munro.
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The Iceland biography and egodocuments in historical writing / Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon -- Between ’Creators and Bearers of the Czech National Myth’ and ’academic suicide’: Czech biography in the twnty-first century / Jana Wohlmuth Markupová / Biographies and their agendas: the Danish biographical tradition in a historical repspective / Joanna Cymbrykiewicz -- Biography in the Netherlands. The biography’s pretension to truth is relative / Elsbeth Etty -- Inception, inheritance and innovation. Sima Quan, Liang Qichao and the modernization of Chinese biography / Liu Jialin.
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Resumen
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"Internationally acclaimed biographies are almost always written by British or American biographers. But what is the state of the art of biography in other parts of the world? Introduced by Richard Holmes, the volume "Different Lives" offers a global perspective: seventeen scholars vividly describe the biographical tradition in their countries of interest. They show how biography functions as a public genre, featuring specific societal issues and opinion-making. Indeed, the volume aims to answer the question: how can biography contribute to a better understanding of differences between societies and cultures? Special attention is given to the US, China and the Netherlands. Other contributions are on Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, and South Africa. ’This book represents a much needed breakdown of the history and current status of Biography Studies throughout the world. Any educator teaching a course in higher education that includes Biography Studies should definitely consider this as a major text for inclusion.’ -- Billy Tooma, filmmaker and Assistant Professor, Wessex County College. ’The rise of biography is the literary event of our time; Hamilton and Renders are its pioneer scholars, and their compelling primer is a must read.’ -- Joanny Moulin (Institut Universitaire de France) on Nigel Hamilton and Hans Renders, The ABC of Modern Biography (2018)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tema
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Biography as a literary form -- Cross-cultural studies
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Biography -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Coautor Personal
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Veltman, David, editor
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Hamilton, Nigel
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Enlace Directo
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https://aleph.cide.edu:443/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000173189&local_base=CATALOGO_CIDE
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