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Journal articles on the topic "Biography as a literary form"

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RODIN, KIRILL A. "AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND (LITERARY) LAG FORM." Chelovek.RU, no. 2021-16 (November 22, 2021): 181–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.32691/2410-0935-2021-16-181-186.

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In the article we are trying to propose a new way of linking (explaining overdetermination) autobiography (biography) and literary text. We contrast the concept Death of the Author and the formal methods of analysis of the literary text (when the author's biography and autobiography are taken out of the brackets) to the lag form introduced by us. The lag form is considered as a universal form of conjugation of biography (autobiography) and (literary) text. The article is based on examples of the analysis of Dostoevsky's underground consciousness and the film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder «In a Year of 13 Moons».
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Holden, Philip. "Literary Biography as a Critical Form." Biography 37, no. 4 (2014): 917–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2014.0052.

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Khan, Muhammad sajid. "Biography: Anees by Nayyar Masood (An Overview of his Sketch writing)." Pakistan Journal of Applied Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (March 8, 2017): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjass.v5i1.473.

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The article aims at exploring and analyzing the sketch-writing in Anees, a biography written by Nayyar Masood. The sketches usually appeared in a biography is little different from a sketch developed as a genre in Urdu literature. The reason to see such sketches is to know how importance given by the biographer to those influencing the life and time of the hero of the biography. A successful biography is what in which the time and life of the hero appeared vividly as it leads readers to understand the era, literary culture of the time, political atmosphere and various linguistic trends. It happens when a biographer focuses the hero and his or her contemporaries. The way contemporaries are focused in a biography it forms a genre in literature. The article gives instances from Anees to suppert his view and paving the way for a new genre in literature. This article also discusses some of the factors relevant to form a genre.
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Willumsen, Liv Helene. "Om Regine Normanns biografi med påfølgende debatt - slik biografen ser det." Nordlit 2, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 337. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.2210.

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This essay is written as part of a debate related to the biography as genre, following the publishing of my biography Havmannens datter. Regine Normann - et livsløp [The merman's daughter. Regine Normann - a life story] (1997). On one hand the essay contains arguments related to this specific biography. On the other hand, it contains general points of view related to biography as genre. The author defines biography as a written life-story about a person different from the biographer himself or herself. A biography is a work according to historical methods, as it is based on historical sources and has an explicit claim to documentation inherent. In the specific biography on Regine Normann, which is styled as a story, strict demands to historical references are practiced. Still the biography in its final form is dependant upon interpretation of the sources. As more general points on biography as genre the essay argues that competence within documentation is of uttermost importance for the work, as reliable historical sources are the fundament of any valid biography. The work of reference is emphasized, as the reader should have the possibility to control the factual information given. There is a demand that correct and accurate when referring to sources, and not inventing or adding information which can not be documented.It is further argued for a division line between biography writing and literary analysis, in cases wherein the biography is written on an author. For that reason, literary analysis of fictional works does not have any place in a biography, but should be published as literary research. The interpretative function of the biographer is underlined, even in a text based on historical information. In a text formed along narrative lines, as is the case with Regine Normann's life story, the narrator has the authority and power to interpret documents and formulate the text in his own manner and according to his interpretation. N.B: This article was originaly printed among the reviews of Nordlit nr. 3 and can also be found there, in its chronological place. It has been elevated by request of the author.
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Karpinski, Eva C. "Hélène Cixous’s „The Exile of James Joyce”: A Biographical Limit Case." Anglica Wratislaviensia 55 (October 18, 2017): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.55.3.

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This article examines Hélène Cixous’s biographical monograph The Exile of James Joyce as a limit case of biographical praxis. Joyce’s biography is read in the context of Cixous’s own evolving personal motif of exile, revealing her autobiographical investment in becoming a writer through reading Joyce. She pushes the boundaries of the biographical genre at the intersections of autobiography, literary criticism, and biography, defying simple generic classifications and exposing the limits of conventional demarcations between the artist, the work, the biographer, and the critic. As a result, the text becomes a creative-interpretive hybrid project, where the biographical code has been displaced by focus on epistemological, psychological, and textual problems implicit in the rela­tionship between the biographer and the biographical subject. Her approach invites us to consider the following questions: How does she rewrite Joyce through her own multiple experiences of exile that she also shares with Jacques Derrida? What difference does gender make in the construction of the biographical subject as the great modernist “genius”? How does gender marginalization impact her authority as a biographer? The discussion is also framed through some larger questions concerning the aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political role of biography in approaching modernist literature and culture: Is biography an art or a craft? What kind of knowledge does biography generate? How far is biography a form of discursive violence and voyeurism? How can attention to affect and intimacy offer new insights into the aesthetics of the biographical genre?
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Hlavatska, Yu. "AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEXT: THE SHIFTING OF THE LINGUISTIC FORM (CASE STUDY OF ITS TYPOLOGY AND STYLISTIC FEATURES)." Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка. Філологічні науки, no. 3(98) (December 23, 2022): 79–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.35433/philology.3(98).2022.79-89.

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The article provides an analysis of modern theoretical and methodological studies focused on the study of autobiographical texts within their typological and stylistic characteristics. It has been specified that the theoretical understanding of autobiographical texts closely correlates with the concepts of anthropocentrism and the autobiographical discourse. The purpose of our paper is to outline the main vectors of theoretical studies of the autobiography and the biography as texts of the autobiographical discourse. It is believed that the processed data have a fruitful basis for further research of the literary biography. It is noted that the linguistic form of the autobiography has undergone changes due to the skillful description of a person’s life as an amazing story via which one can outline his/her image. The attention has been focused on various scientific approaches to the study of an autobiographical text in modern linguistics. Different classification criteria as well as linguistic and stylistic properties of the autobiography and the biography have been established, such as: retrospectivity, chronology, identity of the author, narrator and protagonist, memory, openness, ratio of the past and the present, a pronounced personal element, ratio of subjective and objective principles. The article claims that the text of the artistic biography differs from the text of the literary biography. The latter is characterized by a gradual and slow depiction of data from the real life of a specific figure, an arbitrary way of presenting the material, a combination of elements of two styles (artistic and official), awareness of the picture of the past life of the object of the literary biography. Among the stylistic peculiarities of such texts the article distinguished emotional and expressive vocabulary, complex sentences, the author’s digressions that reflect his personal positions and "destroy" the ambiguity, one-planning and simplification of the biographical text.
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Taylor-Terlecka, Nina. "Biografia – ale jaka?" Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 48, no. 3 (November 1, 2020): 23–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.516.

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The author discusses the problem of biography as a literary genre, as well as biographics as a form of (popular-)scientific writing. Among the analysed examples there are texts of: J. Le Goff, J. M. Rymkiewicz,J. Barker, A. Buisine, G.D. Painter and others. In conclusions the author suggests that the biography will remain selection-editorial-reduction, a form of simplification or pigeonholing. Hence, it is impossible to avoid the dilemma of whether it is to be a scientific, literary or popular work, whether to prefer the spirit or the letter of fact.
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Smith, Beverley J. "The Biography of Gruffudd AP Cynan: Literary Form and Historical Interpretation." Welsh History Review / Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru 29, no. 3 (June 1, 2019): 337–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.16922/whr.29.3.1.

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Brahmbhatt, Sanjaykumar K. "Biographical Literature in Modern Sanskrit Language." HARIDRA 2, no. 06 (September 25, 2021): 29–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.54903/haridra.v2i06.7733.

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Biographical literature in modem Sanskrit language Biographies of great people have been the source of modem Sanskrit literary creation. Many biographies are available in the form of epic, prose and champu kavyas in Sanskrit literature. There are two master pieces of biographies on the iron man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel written in modem Sanskrit language. These two master pieces are 'Lohpurusavadanam"by Dr. Shivprasad Bharadwaj and "Vallabhcharitam" by Dr. Satyapal Sharma. The first one is complete biography in the form of historical epic and the second one is a biography in the form of prose work. Key words: biography, creation, literature, modem Sanskrit, master pieces, epic and prose work.
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Ge, Yunzhu, and Zhulin Han. "On Translation Strategies of Biographies under Variational Translation Theory." Journal of Education and Educational Research 4, no. 1 (June 26, 2023): 65–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/jeer.v4i1.10038.

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A biography is a form of literary work that systematically describes and introduces typical characters’ life, spirit, and other fields. The works require “truth, faith and life” to achieve the expression and reflection of the character characteristics and deep spirit. Biography is an effective recording form of people or people’s information, which is of great significance to the study of history and the change of times. This paper selects Li Yanlu, a biography of Mudanjiang Party history of the Communist Party of China, as the research object, and tries to analyze the application of the theory in biographies from the perspective of the theory of variation translation from three aspects: increase, decrease, and compilation.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Biography as a literary form"

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Adams, Sean A. "Genre of Acts and collected biography." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8759.

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This thesis argues that the best genre parallel for the Acts of the Apostles is collected biography. This conclusion is reached through an application of ancient and modern genre theory and a detailed comparison of Acts and collected biographies. Chapter 1 offers prolegomena to this study and further delineates the contours of the thesis. Chapter 2 provides an extensive history of research, not only to provide the context and rationale for the present work, but also to indicate some of the shortcomings of previous investigations and the need for this present study. Chapter 3 presents the methodological perspective for this exploration. Making use of ancient and modern genre theory, I propose that scholars need to understand genre as a dynamic and flexible system that is culturally influenced and highly adaptable. In Chapter 4 I trace the diachronic development of ancient biographies, describe different sub-divisions, and note the strong, enduring relationship between biography and history. In evaluating the development of biography as a whole, there appears to be a distinct preference by ancient biographers for collected biographies. Chapters 5 to 7 interpret Acts in light of its possible relationship with collected biographies. Chapter 5 provides a detailed comparison of the structural and content features of history, novels, collected biographies, and Acts. Overall, this chapter argues that the structural and content features of Acts are most strongly related to the genre of biography and, secondarily, to history. Chapters six and seven evaluate Acts as a modified collected biography, identifying notable similarities in content features, structure, and endings. Chapter 8 summarizes and concludes the thesis, along with a brief mention of avenues for future research. Related literary investigations, such as a list of literary topoi references in biographies, biographies referenced by Diogenes Laertius, and a full discussion of biography’s adaptability in the first century (modelled by Plutarch and Philo), are treated in appendices.
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Li, Xiangnian. "Han Wei Liu Chao zhuan ji wen xue shi gao." Shanghai : Fu dan da xue chu ban she, 1995.

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Twohill, Timothy P. Shields John C. "Multum in parvo autobiographical metis and the democratic impulse /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9835919.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998.
Title from title page screen, viewed July 6, 2006. Dissertation Committee: John C. Shields (chair), Cynthia Huff, Russell K. Rutter, Ray Lewis White. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-226) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Pelser, Abraham Christoffel. "Die literere biografie : 'n terreinverkenning /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2001. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08272002-142815.

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Thesis (M.A.(Afrikaans))--Universiteit van Pretoria.
Afrikaans text with summaries in English and Afrikaans. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-189). Also available on the Internet via World Wide Web.
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Lidström, Brock Malin. "Telling feminist lives : a study of biography as ideological background." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669944.

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Hartsock, Pamela A. ""Tracing the pattern among the tangled threads" : the composition and publication history of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999293.

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Laporte, Yolaine. "Odélie Brisebois : biographie d'une inconnue." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59417.

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In this thesis, I have studied the elements that distinguish the biography as a literary genre. After analysing the different facets involved in the making of a biography, I have applied some theories to practical use. I chose a subject, became acquainted with the facts of this person's life, found the ideal form and produced on paper the life of a real human being. I chose to write a biography on Odelie Brisebois, a very loving and humble woman. Her seventy-seven years encompasses a period of Quebec history and life style that we will never see again.
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Clarke, Sally. "In the space behind his eyes : Donald R. Stuart : a biography." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/857.

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The major part of this thesis, In the Space Behind His Eyes, is a biography of Western Australian author, Donald Robert Stuart (1913-1983), a colourful life story woven around accepted and persistent myths found in the Australian psyche. In his childhood, Donald Stuart listened to stories about his Scottish immigrant grandfather finding gold on the Victorian fields and his father's part in the 1891 Queensland Shearers strike. His poverty-stricken, but peaceful, upbringing in suburban Perth, Western Australia, was overtaken by the 1930s Depression and, as a rebellious fourteen-year old, he left home and took to the road. In the next decade or so, as he adopted the north-west outback life, he was exposed further to Australia's traditional yarns and philosophies. He emerged from this period as the outrageous ‘Scorp’ Stuart, who drank too much and took advantage of the freedoms on offer. At the start of World War II, Scorp volunteered for the 2nd AlF. He served in the Middle East and somehow survived three-and-a-half years as a Prisoner of the Japanese, including a time on the infamous Burma-Thailand railway. On his return to Australia, he began to tread the writer's path, supplementing his memories with renewed visits to the outback of his youth and working on yet another railway. Encouraged by his sister and her friends, supported by two of his wives and recognised by the Western Australian writh1g community, Donald R. Stuart played the role of noted author, a construct only possible because of Scorp Stuart's adventures. Calling on these experiences, in eleven novels and many short stories, he set down his record of a particular Australian life. The varying facets of his complex character come together in his writing, notably through his deep love of the land and in his sympathetic examination of the north-west Aborigines' position since white settlement. This biography of a writer sets out to trace the life of Donald Stuart, examine the disparity between Stuart the bushman and Stuart the noted author, and to shed light on the man behind the writing. In the essay following In the Space Behind His Eyes, I explore the biographical form, consider directions the genre has taken in recent years, discuss aspects of biography generally and support choices made in the writing of this biography.
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Wilson, Sandip LeeAnne. "Coherence and Historical understanding in children's Biography and Historical Nonfiction Literature: A Content Analysis of Selected Orbis Pictus Books." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2001. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/WilsonSLA2001.pdf.

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MacGregor, Catherine. "Writing lives of addiction: A context for literary biography and criticism." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9180.

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This thesis presents a series of case studies demonstrating that literary biography and literary criticism concerning writers who abused alcohol or who lived in relationships with those who abused alcohol can be enriched by an interdisciplinary appreciation of contemporary addiction theory. It begins with an overview of the various constructions of addiction to alcohol and to other substances and activities, ways of thinking about harmful dependencies which have dominated Western attitudes since the eighteenth century. It then identifies the directions current addiction research and therapy have taken and focuses particularly on the paradigm in most frequent clinical use today; that is, the understanding of alcohol addiction as a disorder not merely of the individual subject but of a constellation of codependent relationships. Literary biography has all too often either trivialized or sensationalized the addictions of writers and their families, and in doing so, has made it difficult for critics to address textual questions which could be resolved more appropriately with a sensitivity to addiction theory in general and to the circumstances of the writer's life in particular. To demonstrate that current thinking about alcoholism and codependency provides a valid way to read works by writers who were either alcoholic themselves or who lived in domestic relationships with alcoholics, it presents "case studies" from eras prior to our own and argues that authorial anxiety about alcohol abuse and addiction was not only a significant factor in the production of the texts but in the preoccupations within the works themselves in ways which repay close reading. It provides readings of well-known nineteenth and twentieth-century novels: Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, and Evelyn Waugh's The Sword of Honour trilogy. In doing so, it seeks to demonstrate that anxiety about alcohol abuse in the context of marriage and parent-child relationships is a recurring and meaningful element, attention to which deepens a reader's appreciation of the writers' theme and technique and, moreover, challenges-or complements, in unexpected ways-insights from more conventional criticism.
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Books on the topic "Biography as a literary form"

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Dale, Salwak, ed. The literary biography: Problems and solutions. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.

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Dale, Salwak, ed. The literary biography: Problems and solutions. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1996.

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Lee, Hermione. Biography: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Lee, Hermione. Biography: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Lee, Hermione. Biography: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Murray, Kendall Paul. The art of biography. New York: Garland Pub., 1985.

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Marshall, Julian Malim. Eccles Shorrock (1827-89): his biography: An experiment in literary form. [UK]: [s.n.], 1994.

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1942-, Batchelor John, ed. The art of literary biography. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1995.

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Eric, Homberger, and Charmley John 1955-, eds. The Troubled face of biography. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

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Garraty, John Arthur. The nature of biography. New York: Garland, 1985.

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Book chapters on the topic "Biography as a literary form"

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McVeigh, Jane. "Concerns about Facts and Form in Literary Biography." In A Companion to Literary Biography, 143–58. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118896433.ch8.

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Saunders, Max. "Ford, Eliot, Joyce, and the Problems of Literary Biography." In Writing the Lives of Writers, 150–72. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_11.

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Howsam, Leslie. "6. Journalism and Authorship." In Eliza Orme’s Ambitions, 105–18. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0392.06.

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A further aspect of Eliza Orme’s public life in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s was her eloquent, engaged, authorship—some of it signed but much of it published anonymously. This chapter situates her as a journalist and editor as well as a lawyer and politician. In more or less chronological order, sections include: ‘Contributions to The Examiner, Englishwoman’s Review and Longman’s (and an index)’ (these comprised her important essays ‘Sound-Minded Women’ and ‘How Poor Ladies Live’ as well as a work of legal scholarship that took the form of indexing Savill Vaizey’s book on marriage settlements); ‘Leaders for the Weekly Dispatch’ (an important aspect of Orme’s life that puts her among a handful of powerful women journalists, but still awaits further research); The Women’s Gazette and the Royal Commission (whatever the political or official purposes of these activities, the editing of the Women’s Gazette was journalism and the several reports of the Royal Commission report constituted authorship); ‘A Trial in India, a literary labour of love, and more’ (Orme’s editing of The Trial of Shama Charan Pal and her biography, Lady Fry of Darlington); ‘National Biography’ (Orme’s three contributions to the 1901 supplementary volume of the Dictionary of National Biography). This chapter is shaped significantly by Leslie Howsam’s research interests in the history of the book, and of the periodical press, in nineteenth-century Britain.
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McHugh, Susan. "Taxidermy’s Literary Biographies." In Animal Biography, 141–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98288-5_8.

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Taylor-Pirie, Emilie. "Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire." In Empire Under the Microscope, 1–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3_1.

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AbstractIn this introduction, Taylor-Pirie appraises the intersections of the ‘imaginative architecture of science and empire’ by examining how, as a fledging medical discipline at the fin de siècle, parasitology entered into significant encounters and exchanges with the literary and historical imagination. Introducing readers to Nobel Prize–winning parasitologist Ronald Ross (1857–1932), Taylor-Pirie lays the foundations for the rest of the book by examining how forms such as poetry and biography, genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction, and modes such as adventure and the Gothic together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. In addition to considering the contemporaneous public understanding of science, she also explores how parasitologists were often engaged in writing their own histories of the discipline, a practice that led to a predominantly white, predominantly male understanding of science that finds a legacy in gender disparities in STEM and biases in popular histories of medicine in favour of a mode of ‘heroic biography’. She provides a brief critical overview of the field of literature and science and places her methodology and the field in the context of contemporary topics like the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and the heritage culture wars.
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Novetzke, Christian Lee. "The Biography of Literary Vernacularization." In The Quotidian Revolution. Columbia University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231175807.003.0004.

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Supplies the remembered biographical data and likely public memory of Chakradhar and Jnandev that help shape the context of the four chapters that follow. The chapter also argues that meaning coheres around these received biographies in a way that stabilizes their “value” in a particular kind of spiritual economy of the age. The lives of these two emblematic figures are engaged as metonymic biographies, indexes for a much broader social change.
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Rogers, Pat. "Biography." In Pope And The Destiny Of The Stuarts, 53–91. Oxford University PressOxford, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199274390.003.0003.

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Abstract In order to come to a full understanding of the poem, we need to locate it within Pope’s career as a writer. This is because the composition of Windsor-Forest marks a moment of transition as he developed from a primarily descriptive poet, concerned with the matter of traditional genres such as pastoral, to a primarily satiric poet, dealing with public themes and urban issues. In the first section of the chapter, an attempt will be made to provide the context for a literary shift which parallels the swerve in Pope’s private life as he left the Forest for Chiswick, on the edge of the city.
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Jones, Polly. "Politizdat’s Literary Turn After Stalin." In Revolution Rekindled, 28–65. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804345.003.0001.

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This chapter analyses the effects on political publishing of the party and state authorities’ urgent concerns about the language and form of Soviet propaganda, which emerged very soon after Stalin’s death, lasted throughout the post-Stalin period, and targeted Politizdat as political literature’s main producer. This major drive for more engaging propaganda gave rise, in the 1950s and 1960s, to unprecedented critique of the language of Politizdat’s previous publications, and then to the embrace of biography as the most lively and effective form of propaganda. The creation of the ‘Fiery Revolutionaries’ series initiated a large-scale, long-term experiment with the biography genre and with literary collaboration to revitalize political literature’s popular appeal: it was intended to produce evocative and emotionally involving portraits of a huge gallery of ‘revolutionaries’. The last part of this chapter traces the early, embattled years of the series between its creation in 1964 and its launch in 1968, the same year as the party’s ideological crackdown connected to the intervention in Czechoslovakia.
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Wilson, Ross. "Life-Writing." In Critical Forms, 201—C7P36. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198881117.003.0008.

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Abstract This chapter examines the contested status of life-writing and biography. It seeks to clear a middle path between different positions on life-writing’s claim to be literary criticism by resisting mere dismissals of it, on the one hand, and noticing that biography’s explanatory power is limited, on the other. The place of biography in William Empson’s criticism is taken to offer one way of characterizing this interpretation of literary-critical life-writing. The chapter then considers the canonical example of Samuel Johnson’s critical biographies, focusing especially on their changing presentation as they went through different editions, before concluding with an extended discussion of Elizabeth Gaskell’s negotiation of Charlotte Brontë as woman and as author.
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Pyman, Avril. "Yury Tynyanov and the ‘Literary Fact’." In Mapping Lives. British Academy, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197263181.003.0010.

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Russian Formalist theory argued that biography should be studied scientifically as the history of form, rather than as a history of personalities, ideas, or content. In other words, the study of literature is not philosophy, sociology, theology, or mythology, but an exact science of the primary matter of text: the word, the language, the speech, and the stylistic device. Biographies of authors were thought of as belonging to the separate ‘series’ parallel to the evolution of literature. However, in practice, the lives and times of the writers were often found not so much to run parallel to as to be contingent upon the texts they produce, in a way that made it increasingly difficult to preserve the clinical purity of the ‘science’ of literature. Hence, to deal with this, Formalists formulated new terms such as ‘literary facts’ and ‘literary milieu’. This chapter discusses Yury Tynyanov, who sought to distinguish his books about the writers' lives from his ‘scientific’ works of theory and research by writing them in the form of novels that were closely associated with film scenarios and historical fiction. It examines his Pushkin, an unfinished biography that culminated his achievements and which marked the beginning of the merging of literary-historical research, biography, and fiction.
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Conference papers on the topic "Biography as a literary form"

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Panchenko, Oleg V. "On the Literary Work of Chudovsky Deacon Job, a Student of the Leichoudis Brothers, during His Exile to the Solovki in 1701-1703." In Лихудовские чтения — 2022. НовГУ им. Ярослава Мудрого, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.34680/978-5-89896-832-8/2023.readings.05.

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ƒe article recounts a little-known episode in the biography of the Chudov deacon Job, a disciple of the Leichoudis brothers, who was exiled to Solovki in 1701. Having witnessed Peter the Great's visit to the Solovetsky monastery in 1702, he compiled a text about this and the previous visit of the Tsar to Solovki (in 1694 and 1702), placed in the Peter's Chapel. A„erwards this story was included in the Solovetsky Chronicle of the 1st Extended redaction. Another product of Job's literary work was the book e Salvation Garden (1703) which is a collection of lives, services and panegyrics for the founders of the Solovetsky monastery. In the preface to this work Job included an eulogy to the synaxis of the Solovetsky saints composed by him and a brief chronological account of the biographies of the 12 most venerated ascetics. His work subsequently became the primary source for all XIX century writings on Solovetsky hagiology.
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Neagu, Laurentiumarian, Teodormihai Cotet, Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausanmatu, Laura Badescu, and Eugen Simion. "SEMANTIC AUTHOR RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THEIR BIOGRAPHY FROM THE GENERAL ROMANIAN DICTIONARY OF LITERATURE." In eLSE 2019. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-19-022.

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The Romanian Language Dictionary is a centralized text repository which contains detailed biographies of all Romanian authors and can be used to perform various subsequent analyses. The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel method to recommend authors based on their biography from the Romanian Language Dictionary. Starting from multiple PDF input files made available by the "G. C?linescu" Institute of Literary History and Theory, we extracted relevant information on Romanian authors which was indexed into Elasticsearch, a non-relational database optimized for full-text indexing and search. The relevant information considers author's full name, their pseudonym (if any), year of birth and of death (if applicable), brief description (including studies, cities they lived in, important people they met, brief history), writings, critical references of others, etc. The indexed information is easily accessible through a RESTful API and provides a powerful starting point which may contribute to future Romanian cultural findings. Based on this consistent database, our aim is to create an interactive map showing all Romanian literature contributors, enabling the identification of similarities and differences between them based on specific features (e.g., similar writing styles, time periods, or similar text descriptions in terms of semantic models). In order to have a clearer image on how authors relate one to another, we employed the k-Means and agglomerative clustering algorithms from the Scikit-learn machine learning library. The results depict the distribution of Romanian authors throughout history and enable the identification of correlations between them based on the emerging clusters. This paper is a proof of concept that makes use of only the first volume of the Romanian Language Dictionary and represents the first step for follow-up analyses performed using the indexed dictionary.
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RYCHKOV, Alexander L. "BEYOND THE PALE OF THE PAGES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MINING ENGINEER: UNKNOWN PAGES OF THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER SCHUPPE." In Eurasia s Mountain Heart, devoted to the 95th anniversary of the Satka Municipal District. Chelyabinsk State University Publishing House, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47475/9785727118511_169.

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On the foundation of lifetime publication oeuvres and archival sources, most of which are used for the fi rst time, this paper examines the remaining unknown pages of life of Alexander F. Schuppe. Schuppe was a member of the “Land and Liberty” secret society and later became one of the most creative Ural mining engineers and mining industrialists, and initiated the construction of the “Magnezit” refractory products factory and the “Porogi” ferroalloy plant. The methodology of research of regional intellectual traditions of Russia, which is focused on the fi gure of Schuppe, is based on such an interdisciplinary research direction as Intellectual History. Therefore, A.F. Schuppe’s life-creation is described in the genre of intellectual biography, where the personal life and creative activities of the researched fi gure are closely intertwined with cultural and historical contexts of the era, especially the South Ural region. This article explores his genealogy, family life and political biography, communication with famous people of his time, as well as the last years of his life, which were unknown until now. The article also presents the results of the study of documentary sources related to the discovery of magnesite deposits near the village of “Satkinsky plant” was carried out, on the basis of which found the exact date and history of the discovery of these deposits by A.F. Schuppe. The appendices contain little-known publications about Schuppe in the fi rst third of the 20th century, as well as a bibliography of his works, which is preceded by a list compiled by Schuppe himself and published for the fi rst time, “Works by A.F. Schuppe”. There is an extensive list of historical, archival, and literary sources.
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Imikhelova, Svetlana. "Literary Biography Of A Writer From The Province: Challenges And Challenges." In International Scientific Conference «Social and Cultural Transformations in the Context of Modern Globalism» dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Turkayev Hassan Vakhitovich. European Publisher, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.10.05.61.

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Zhaxi, Lajie. "Discussion on the Literary Thought of the Great Adept "Biography of Milarepa"." In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icassee-18.2018.20.

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Pfeiferová, Dana, and Hana Menclová. "Friedrich Achleitner: kurzweilig. ,Einschlafgeschichten‘ im DaF-Unterricht." In Form und Funktion. University of Ostrava, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/fufd2023.07.

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This contribution to foreign language didactics has an interdisciplinary orientation. It presents a proposal for an attractive design of foreign language teaching with the help of selected literary texts. It shows how the miniatures of the Austrian experimental author Friedrich Achleitner can be used in GFL lessons. Since his subject is language itself, this essay is supplemented not only by comments on literary theory or literary history, but also by linguistic explanations.
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Lindinger, Stefan. "„Höhlender Wind wohnt zwischen dem kalten Gemäuer der Stadt“. Gottfried Kölwels ,Münchner Elegien‘ (1947)." In Form und Funktion. University of Ostrava, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/fuflit2023.09.

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In 1947, Southern German poet Gottfried Kölwel (1889–1958) published a cycle of six poems under the title ,Munich Elegies‘, in which he laments the destruction of this city caused by the bombings of World War II. Kölwel makes use of the erudite literary form of the elegy and thus attempts to counteract the notions of chaos and destruction, which are inherent in his literary material, by imposing a formal structure upon it. In this contribution, the poems are contextualized within the literary history of the years immediately following the war as well as analyzed in a close reading.
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Pac'orka, E. I. "SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY OF F. M. DOSTOYEVSKY IN THE CONTEXT OF AXIOLOGICAL APPROACH (ON THE MATERIAL OF EGO-DOCUMENTS AND «A WRITER’S DIARY»)." In ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES. Publishing House of Tomsk State University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/978-5-94621-901-3-2020-74.

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Şəmsi qızı Məmmədova, Xumar. "Nakhchivan literary atmosphere and literary translation." In OF THE V INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CONFERENCE. https://aem.az/, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/2021/02/03.

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The presented article discusses the issues of Nakhchivan literary environment and literary translation. It is noted that translation is a creation in itself, and the activities of representatives of the Nakhchivan literary environment in this area are exemplary. In general, during the independence period, some experience was gained in the literary environment of Nakhchivan, translations from German, English and French by our poets and writers Hamid Arzulu, Shirmammad Gulubeyli, Shamil Zaman who is famous as poet, prose-writer and translator were delivered to readers in the form of books and works were published in the press. The examples presented in the article once again prove the perfection of the writers' translation activities, their translations from German, English and French provide the Azerbaijani reader with full information about the society, people and their life of these peoples. Key words: Nakhchivan, literary atmosphere, literary translation, prose, poetry
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Chappuzeau, Bernhard. "Literatur nach dem cultural turn. Metatextuelle Diskurse in der Literatur seit 1990 (Maxim Biller und Mathias Énard)." In Form und Funktion. University of Ostrava, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/fuflit2023.12.

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Since the semiotic turn in the 1960s and 1970s, discourse analysis provides a lasting importance on the understanding of literature. Regarding the cultural turn of the 1990s, literary studies have become even more affiliated to each other by using concepts and questions in an interdisciplinary way. Travelling concepts in the humanities (Mieke Bal) have a significant impact on numerous writers who incorporate this discourse into their works. Based on some readings of German and French authors, it will be discussed to what extent such metatextual references have a decisive influence on the form and content of literary text production.
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Reports on the topic "Biography as a literary form"

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Halych, Valentyna. SERHII YEFREMOV’S COOPERATION WITH THE WESTERN UKRAINIAN PRESS: MEMORIAL RECEPTION. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11055.

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The subject of the study is the cooperation of S. Efremov with Western Ukrainian periodicals as a page in the history of Ukrainian journalism which covers the relationship of journalists and scientists of Eastern and Western Ukraine at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Research methods (biographical, historical, comparative, axiological, statistical, discursive) develop the comprehensive disclosure of the article. As a result of scientific research, the origins of Ukrainocentrism in the personality of S. Efremov were clarified; his person as a public figure, journalist, publisher, literary critic is multifaceted; taking into account the specifics of the memoir genre and with the involvement of the historical context, the turning points in the destiny of the author of memoirs are interpreted, revealing cooperation with Western Ukrainian magazines and newspapers. The publications ‘Zoria’, ‘Narod’, ‘Pravda’, ‘Bukovyna’, ‘Dzvinok’, are secretly got into sub-Russian Ukraine, became for S. Efremov a spiritual basis in understanding the specifics of the national (Ukrainian) mass media, ideas of education in culture of Ukraine at the end of XIX century, its territorial integrity, and state independence. Memoirs of S. Efremov on cooperation with the iconic Galician journals ‘Notes of the Scientific Society after the name Shevchenko’ and ‘Literary-Scientific Bulletin’, testify to an important stage in the formation of the author’s worldview, the expansion of the genre boundaries of his journalism, active development as a literary critic. S. Yefremov collaborated most fruitfully and for a long time with the Literary-Scientific Bulletin, and he was impressed by the democratic position of this publication. The author’s comments reveal a long-running controversy over the publication of a review of the new edition of Kobzar and thematically related discussions around his other literary criticism, in which the talent of the demanding critic was forged. S. Efremov steadfastly defended the main principles of literary criticism: objectivity and freedom of author’s thought. The names of the allies of the Ukrainian idea L. Skochkovskyi, O. Lototskyi, O. Konyskyi, P. Zhytskyi, M. Hrushevskyi in S. Efremov’s memoirs unfold in multifaceted portrait descriptions and function as historical and cultural facts that document the pages of the author’s biography, record his activities in space and time. The results of the study give grounds to characterize S. Efremov as the first professional Ukrainian-speaking journalist.
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Tsepkalo, Tetiana. SOCIAL ROLES AND STEREOTYPES OF FEMININITY IN THE ALMANAC «KURIER KRYVBASU». Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2024.54-55.12172.

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The subject of this research is the social roles and stereotypes of femininity in the almanac «Kurier Kryvbasu». The aim of the study is to conduct a systematic analysis of gender stereotypes of femininity in the literary almanac. The article employs the following methods: theoretical – for studying gender theory, stereotyping, and their application in the analysis of the content of the periodical; systemic-structural analysis – for conducting a systematic analysis of the social roles of femininity in the almanac «Kurier Kryvbasu»; structural-typological – for studying the content and structure of the literary almanac; descriptive method - for interpreting women’s roles and stereotypes. Main findings. The role of gender stereotypes in representing women in the media texts of contemporary Ukrainian writers in the pages of the periodical almanac «Kurier Kryvbasu» has been elucidated. A systematic analysis of feminine social roles, including the beautiful woman, the businesswoman, the happy woman, the sex symbol, and the wife-mother, is presented. The social roles and stereotypes of femininity in the literary almanac «Kurier Kryvbasu» are interpreted according to the classification of G. Kovalova and V. Danilyan. Conclusions. In the almanac «Kurier Kryvbasu», entrenched perceptions regarding women’s model appearance, their frivolity and accessibility, professional inferiority, sexual objectification, competent housekeeping, maternal duties, and the pursuit of illusory «female happiness» in the form of marriage, family, and children are used. However, a trend of feminist rise is observed, where the pages of the magazine describe women’s career successes, self-actualization, participation in military actions, etc. Significance. The analysis of gender stereotypes, both femininity and masculinity, in Ukrainian literary-artistic periodicals is important for the development of the contemporary media sphere, as such research will encourage editorial teams to direct media content towards gender balance and gender equality. Key words: gender stereotypes, social role, femininity, journal, literary magazine, media text.
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Гарлицька, Т. С. Substandard Vocabulary in the System of Urban Communication. Криворізький державний педагогічний університет, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/3912.

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The article is devoted to substandard elements which are considered as one of the components in the system of urban forms of communication. The Object of our research is substandard vocabulary, the Subject is structural characteristics of the modern city language, the Purpose of the study is to define the main types of substandard vocabulary and their role in the system of urban communication. The theoretical base of our research includes the scientific works of native and foreign linguists, which are devoted to urban linguistics (B. Larin, M. Makovskyi, V. Labov, T. Yerofeieva, L. Pederson, R. McDavid, O. Horbach, L. Stavytska, Y. Stepanov, S. Martos). Different lexical and phraseological units, taken from the Ukrainian, Russian and American Dictionaries of slang and jargon, serve as the material of our research. The main components of the city language include literary language, territorial dialects, different intermediate transitional types, which are used in the colloquial everyday communication but do not have territorial limited character, and social dialects. The structural characteristics, proposed in the article, demonstrate the variety and correlation of different subsystems of the city language. Today peripheral elements play the main role in the city communication. They are also called substandard, non-codified, marginal, non-literary elements or the jargon styles of communication. Among substandard elements of the city language the most important are social dialects, which include such subsystems as argot, jargon and slang. The origin, functioning and characteristics of each subsystem are studied on the material of linguistic literature of different countries. It is also ascertained that argot is the oldest form of sociolects, jargon divides into corporative and professional ones, in the structure of slangy words there are common and special slang. Besides, we can speak about sociolectosentrism of the native linguistics and linguemosentrism of the English tradition of slang nomination. Except social dialects, the important structural elements of the city language are also intermediate transitional types, which include koine, colloquialisms, interdialect, surzhyk, pidgin and creole. Surzhyk can be attributed to the same type of language formations as pidgin and creole because these types of oral speech were created mostly by means of the units mixing of the obtruded language of the parent state with the elements of the native languages.
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Kharkivska, Alla A., Liudmyla V. Shtefan, Muntasir Alsadoon, and Aleksandr D. Uchitel. Technology of forming future journalists' social information competence in Iraq based on the use of a dynamic pedagogical site. [б. в.], July 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/3853.

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The article reveals scientific approaches to substantiating and developing technology to form social information competence of future Iraqi journalists based on using a dynamic pedagogical site. After pre-interviewing students of the Journalism Faculty at Al-Imam Al-Kadhim University College for Islamic Sciences in Baghdad, the authors came to the conclusion there are issues on defining the essence of social information competences. It is established that the majority of respondents do not feel satisfied with the conditions for forming these competences in the education institutions. At the same time, there were also positive trends as most future journalists recognized the importance of these professional competences for their professional development and had a desire to attend additional courses, including distance learning ones. Subsequently, the authors focused on social information competence of future journalists, which is a key issue according to European requirements. The authors describe the essence of this competence as an integrative quality of personality, which characterizes an ability to select, transform information and allows to organize effective professional communication on the basis of the use of modern communicative technologies in the process of individual or team work. Based on the analysis of literary sources, its components are determined: motivational, cognitive, operational and personal. The researchers came to the conclusion that it is necessary to develop a technology for forming social information competence of future journalists based on the use of modern information technologies. The necessity of technology implementation through the preparatory, motivational, operational and diagnostic correction stages was substantiated and its model was developed. The authors found that the main means of technology implementation should be a dynamic pedagogical site, which, unlike static, allows to expand technical possibilities by using such applications as photo galleries, RSS modules, forums, etc. Technically, it can be created using Site builder. Further research will be aimed at improving the structure of the dynamic pedagogical site of the developed technology.
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