A Modern Poetics of Biography
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Beschreibung
This book provides a comprehensive study of biography, to summarize the standard forms as well as a range of peripheral and expanded forms of auto/biography. Discussion and analyses to be done at three levels, namely ontology, typology, and writing. It is drawn from local and international theories in biography, in addition to related disciplines, in particular for those of the twentieth century, and summarizing the experiences of the writing of classics in both Chinese and Western biographical history, the study establishes a theoretical system of biography. This book can serve as a useful reference for postgraduate students and professional readers who are interested in biographical research.
This book provides a comprehensive study of biography, to summarize the standard forms as well as a range of peripheral and expanded forms of auto/biography. Discussion and analyses to be done at three levels, namely ontology, typology, and writing. It is drawn from local and international theories in biography, in addition to related disciplines, in particular for those of the twentieth century, and summarizing the experiences of the writing of classics in both Chinese and Western biographical history, the study establishes a theoretical system of biography. This book can serve as a useful reference for postgraduate students and professional readers who are interested in biographical research.
Conducts a comprehensive and in-depth study of biography using modern academic methods Summarizes both Eastern and Western biographical theories into theoretical framework Presents the leading figure in the systematic study of biographies and autobiographies in China
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Zhengrun Yang
Themen in »A Modern Poetics of Biography«
Poetics of biography Ontology of biography Writing of biography Biographical subject interpretation theoretical system of biography