A Brief History of Biographies : From Plutarch to Celebs pdf
A Brief History of Biographies : From Plutarch to Celebs pdf
A Brief History of Biographies : From Plutarch to Celebs.cAndrew Brown
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Author: Andrew Brown
Page Count: 112 pages
Published Date: 01 Nov 2011
Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781843919728
File size: 35 Mb
File Name: A.Brief.History.of.Biographies.From.Plutarch.to.Celebs.pdf
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The works of T. S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, and more are considered in this exploration of the historical fascination with life-writing Meditating on whether the success of celebrity biographies is a mark of today's prurient, voyeuristic times--or rather, if the fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of human nature, reflected in literary tastes through the ages--this investigation into the history of life-writing argues that modern biographies are actually an extension of early religious roots. Modern writing inspires by framing life as a struggle--against drink, drugs, depression, or deprivation--that is eventually won. Yet this trajectory can be found in even the earliest lives of saints and their struggles against the devil. This history considers the ways in which developments such as changing attitudes towards subjectivity and the self, the cult of the artist, and psychoanalysis have brought this most fascinating of forms from its early religious connotations to its present state.
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A Brief History of Biographies : From Plutarch to Celebs.cAndrew Brown
Author: Andrew Brown
Page Count: 112 pages
Published Date: 01 Nov 2011
Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781843919728
File size: 35 Mb
File Name: A.Brief.History.of.Biographies.From.Plutarch.to.Celebs.pdf
Download Link: A Brief History of Biographies From Plutarch to Celebs
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The works of T. S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, and more are considered in this exploration of the historical fascination with life-writing Meditating on whether the success of celebrity biographies is a mark of today's prurient, voyeuristic times--or rather, if the fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of human nature, reflected in literary tastes through the ages--this investigation into the history of life-writing argues that modern biographies are actually an extension of early religious roots. Modern writing inspires by framing life as a struggle--against drink, drugs, depression, or deprivation--that is eventually won. Yet this trajectory can be found in even the earliest lives of saints and their struggles against the devil. This history considers the ways in which developments such as changing attitudes towards subjectivity and the self, the cult of the artist, and psychoanalysis have brought this most fascinating of forms from its early religious connotations to its present state.
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