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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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Groń, Ryszard. "Biograf Aelreda z Rievaulx i jego źródła." Vox Patrum 64 (December 15, 2015): 151–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.3710.
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The article was written to illustrate the difficulties we encounter when attempting to convey the biography of Aelred, a famous 12th century English abbot of Rievaulx. The difficulties are linked with the fact that Aelred lived in medieval times and his biography was written in the form of a hagiography. This style of writing was very popular in the middle ages and usually served to emphasize the holiness of a person’s life, i.e. to demonstrate an exemplary life of Christian virtues rather than as an attempt to concentrate on biographical details. The latter rather served as points of reference to the person in question and were expressed in hagiographic style, i.e. with focus on models of behavior, achievements and miracles that fit the style, based on examples taken from the Bible and the lives of other popular saints. Written in monastic circles, such works took on the form of biographies of saints and were often written to satisfy a specific cause (T.J. Heffernan). This is the type of biography we are dealing with here. When attempting to convey Aelred’s biography in the contemporary meaning of the term, we must first sift through its hagiographic form and supplement information contained therein with other historical and literary sources. In our case, the attempt was carried out in six points, with focus on: the primary source of Aelred of Rievaulx’s biography, Vita Aelredi (1); its author, Walter Daniel (2); the reasons why this work was written (3); its hagiographic form (4); the work’s internal sources, i.e. sources linked with the author’s own circles (5); as well as outside historical and literary sources of information concerning Aelred (6).
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Zhygun, Snizhana. "Re-Writing a Woman’s Biography: Marco Vovchok as a Character of Literary Work." University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 10, no. 2 (October 2021): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.31178/ubr.10.2.5.
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The attitude to biographical works has changed significantly under the influence of postmodernism: the refusal to perceive the author as a single authoritative source of meaning has led to the perception of biographical fiction as a fiction biography, creating in the context of the ideology a biography of the biographer himself. The aim of the proposed study is to find out how gender and ideology form the strategies for presenting the Ukrainian woman writer as a character of a biographical novel. The proposed article will deal with 4 works of different periods: “The Silent Deity” by V.Domontovych (1930), “At Dawn” by Y. Tys (1961), “Maria” by O. Ivanenko (1983), “Like a Magnet” by I. Rozdobudko (2013). At the heart of all of them is the life of the first Ukrainian writer Marco Vovchok (Maria Vilinska), but quite different women are represented in these works. The biographical works under consideration demonstrate more attention to the events of the writer’s life than to what she wanted to say in her work. The interpretation of Marco Vovchok’s stories is dominated by their political (social) significance and they are presented as a basis for talking about the life of the woman (with the exception of Rozdobudko’s story).
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Foulcher, Keith. "Biography, history and the Indonesian novel : Reading Salah Asuhan." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 161, no. 2 (2009): 247–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003709.
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The novel Salah Asuhan (Wrong Upbringing), written by the Indonesian nationalist politician and journalist Abdoel Moeis, has long held an honoured place in the modern Indonesian literary canon. It was originally published in 1928 by Balai Poestaka, the Netherlands Indies government printing house, and by 1995 it had been reprinted twenty-three times. In summary form, it has been studied by generations of Indonesian schoolchildren, and in 1972 it was adapted by Asrul Sani as a successful feature film. Critics and historians of modern Indonesian literature have always regarded Salah Asuhan as a literary milestone. It is admired for the maturity of its author’s literary imagination, as well as the modernity of its language and style. In linguistic terms, it is seen as one of the pioneering literary expressions of the language which was designated as Bahasa Indonesia in the very year of the novel’s publication. It exercises an additional fascination for literary critics and historians because of the circumstances of its publication. The form in which it was originally written is now unknown, for the novel was only published after a lengthy delay and a series of revisions which the author made to the text after seeing his manuscript languish for more than a year under the scrutiny of Balai Poestaka’s editors. As a result, the original conception of Salah Asuhan remains a mystery. Indeed, it is one of the greatest puzzles in a literary history that is so full of documentary lacunae that its serious study remains a source of ongoing challenge and frustration.
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Parry, R. Gwynedd. "Is legal biography really legal scholarship?" Legal Studies 30, no. 2 (June 2010): 208–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.2009.00149.x.
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This paper examines the recent resurgence of interest in the legal biography among legal scholars. It argues that the legal biography has traditionally been treated with suspicion within the English law school due to ideological and methodological concerns about the intellectual validity and robustness of the form, and because of reservations about its true disciplinary province. Through a literary survey of legal biography, it claims a tension between intellectual and empirical approaches that parody the tension between the internal and external traditions in legal history. More recent biographies, however, have succeeded in bridging these divides and in demonstrating the potential value of legal biography in deepening our understanding of the human context of legal phenomena.
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Thompson, Mary Shine. "Literary life‐chronology: an alternative form of biography. The case of Austin Clarke." Irish Studies Review 6, no. 3 (December 1998): 253–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670889808455610.
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Kondrup, Johnny. "Den Postmoderne Biografi." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 14, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 34–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10252-012-0004-4.
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ABSTRACT This article concerns the return of the literary biography in the humanistic fields, especially in Danish literary research, since 1980. During the New Criticism in the 1960s biography was regarded as a superfluous genre, and during the neoMarxism of the 1970s as a naive genre. But around 1980 it returned in the form of a number of new scholarly works especially in the fields of literature and history. This article points to two elements in the postmodern Zeitgeist which might have played a role in promoting the return of biography: first, the collapse of the grand systems of interpretation, and second a change in the ideal of scholarship in the direction of constructivism. Then the article investigates how ‘the new biography’ is distinguished from the old and outlines three points in particular: 1) a greater understanding of the significance of social structures; 2) an increased focus on contingency, incoherence and indeterminacy in a human life; and 3) a rising interest in the ‘ordinary’ human being. On a fourth point, postmodern biography has not come as far as one might expect. Although it could be more experimental and theoretically self-conscious, in fact it employs surprisingly traditional patterns of narrative, most of which are stamped by the Bildungsroman of the 19th century.
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Topan, Farouk. "Biography Writing in Swahili." History in Africa 24 (January 1997): 299–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172032.
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Any meaningful assessment of biography and autobiography writing among the Swahili as a historical source needs to take at least three factors into consideration. The first is the influence of Arab literary traditions on the emergence of the genre on the East African coast; the second is the relationship between literacy and orality, and its implication for writing and narration in an African context. The role of colonialism, and the introduction of the Western “mode” of biography and autobiography writing, forms the third factor. The aim of the paper is to survey these factors, not chronologically, but as part of a general discussion on the notion and status of the genre in the Swahili context.Swahili interface with Arabic as an essential ingredient of Islamic practice laid the foundation for the development of literate genres on the East African coast, among them the biographical and the historical. In the process, Swahili adopted styles of narrative expression which are reflected in the terms employed for them. The most common are habari (from the Arabic khabar) and wasifu (from wasf). In its original usage, khabar denoted a description of an event or events that were connected in a single narrative by means of a phrase such as “in that year.” It lacked a genealogy of narrators, and the form was stylistically flexible to include verses of poetry relevant to the events. In Swahili the current meaning of the word habari is “information” and “news” (and, hence, also a greeting) but, as a historical genre, it has been used in two ways. The first is in relation to the history of the city-states recounted through documents whose titles include the word, khabari/habari, (or the plural, akhbar in Arabic), usually translated as “chronicle(s).”
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Bannet, Eve Tavor. "“Modern Biography”: Form, Function, and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Genre Theory." Eighteenth-Century Life 45, no. 2 (April 1, 2021): 24–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8902653.
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This essay outlines the comprehensive theory of “modern” eighteenth-century biography that was articulated throughout the century in the often lengthy prefaces to collections of lives, disseminated in periodical essays, and applied in reviews to stand-alone lives. This theory addressed the proper selection, presentation, and treatment of both individual and collected “lives.” It gave biography national, historical, commercial, and educational functions; detailed the components of its life-historical narrative and of its critical portions; set standards for what constituted “a fair and full account” of a character, life, and works; and contained in embryo virtually all aspects of biography that would later be singled out as the primary or most valued characteristic of biographical writing. This essay describes the ways biographers and theorists confronted and resolved two ubiquitous difficulties arising from their consensus that “fame or celebrity among us in their generation” was “the grand principle” on which biography was founded: first, how to “do justice” to a person on the basis of sources and testimonials that reflected the partisanship of a country “rent by faction” since the Reformation; and second, how to represent people who had been celebrated in their own time, but not in the biographer's later generation.
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Wilson, Rob. "Producing American Selves: The Form of American Biography." boundary 2 18, no. 2 (1991): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/303281.
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Shapoval, Mariana. "The intellectual's artistic biography in S. Rosovetskyi's dramatic." Synopsis: Text Context Media 26, no. 1 (2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2020.1.1.
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The global trend of digitalization and publishing of historical sources, in particular fiction and its existence in different eras, makes the reader constantly reconsider the lives and work of persons who are regarded as prototypes of characters in literary works. As a result, an artistic image, linked to real life and rooted in the past, generates a consistent literary story in the form of artistic biography. The number and variety of such literary works, including dramatic ones, is constantly growing, which determines the topicality of this study. Over the recent decades, biographical fiction drastically changed its forms, and was enriched with numerous genre varieties and modifications. And this process remains far from complete. The term ‘meta-genre of artistic biography’ is introduced to designate it. This term emphasizes the scale of a certain phenomenon and allows defining the subject of the study — the artistic biographical description of the intellectual in contemporary Ukrainian drama — as well as clarify the understanding of the concept of the ‘intellectual,’ and problematize ways of describing characters of this type. The purpose of the article is to identify the genre-style unity of Ukraine’s modern drama about intellectuals and prove the expediency of the application to it of interpretive approaches to popular knowledge from related areas (history, philosophy, art). Specifically, such varieties of genres as personal artistic biography and intellectual artistic biography were singled out and proposed for the first time on the literary material (S. Rosovetskyi), and that is the research novelty. The research methodology is defined by an interdisciplinary approach that appeals to the achievements of literary criticism, art criticism, history, and philosophy. Results of the Study are connected with considerations that the interest in the artistic biography of the intellectual is associated with a general trend to anthropologize scientific knowledge, coupled with the growing interest of the audience in the individual and personal in the history and in the present, with the dominance of the emotional component in contemporary media discourses, resulting in the actualization of an emotional narrative of the intellectual’s biography, which often sounds tragic nowadays in the context of the catastrophic past of the Ukrainian science and culture.
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Israel, Kali. "Changing the Place of Narrative in Biography: From Form to Method." Life Writing 7, no. 1 (April 2010): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484520903342833.
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Zlá, Iveta. "[Es] interessierte mich schon einiges, was der Fürst niedergeschrieben hatte. Die Darstellung des Fürsten Karl Max Lichnowsky im literarischen Schaffen von August Scholtis." Acta Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Ostraviensis Studia Germanistica, no. 31 (February 2023): 63–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/studiagermanistica.2022.31.0005.
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The article explores the literary depiction of Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky in the autobiographical novel ‘Ein Herr aus Bolatitz’ by August Scholtis. Attention is paid to the comparison of literary form with the historical reality. An account of Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky’s diplomatic career is embedded into an overview of Scholtis’s biography and literary work. Attention is also paid to the literary representation of Lichnowsky in other works by Scholtis. However, the information on Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky’s diplomatic career is presented only briefly; the main focus is the literary portrayal of this nobleman in the autobiographical text ‘Ein Herr aus Bolatitz’. This is presented in a hermeneutic framework. The study also outlines literary means of representation and their composition.
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Te Punga Somerville, Alice. "“Enter Ghost of Goethe”: Comparison and Indigenous Literary Studies in the Pacific." Comparative Literature 75, no. 3 (September 1, 2023): 266–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475393.
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Abstract Māori writer Pei Te Hurinui Jones’s biography of a famous nineteenth-century composer was published serially in the government magazine Te Ao Hou and then in 1961 as Puhiwahine: Māori poetess. The final section of the biography is written in dramatic form: the author is interrupted at his desk by the “ghost of Goethe,” who, it had been rumored, was the father of Puhiwahine’s husband. Following other genealogies—especially those connected to the origins of comparative literature—we might say Goethe’s ghost had already “enter[ed]” this place. In 1886, Irish scholar Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett arrived in Auckland with his freshly printed book Comparative Literature, drawing on work by, among others, Goethe. Responding to Pacific studies scholar Teresia Teaiwa’s argument that “more often than not … the Pacific is not brought to the table as an equal partner in any conversation about the nature of humanity or society,” the article considers how, and on what terms, Te Hurinui’s reckonings with Goethe might be held alongside Posnett’s. Ultimately, drawing attention to these two very different “entries” of Goethe provides an opportunity to reckon with the current and potential relationship between comparative literature, Indigenous literary studies, and the Pacific.
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Kiec, Izolda. "The Schoolgirl trills of Zuzanna Gincburżanka." Tekstualia 2, no. 33 (September 2, 2013): 101–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.6588.
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The article is devoted to the youthful lyrics of Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–1944), a Polish poet of Jewish descent and a victim of the Holocaust. She was brought up in Rivnne in Volyn, in the atmopshere of social, moral and artistic changes in the 1920 s. The young poet touched upon various aspects of modernity in her earliest literary works written for the secondary-school magazine „Echo School”. Her work is a defense of the youthful lyric as a form adequately expressing emotions and identity. It is also a defense of biography, an important source of literary creation and a context of reading.
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Dawsey, J. "The Literary Unity of Luke-Acts: Questions of Style – a Task for Literary Critics." New Testament Studies 35, no. 1 (January 1989): 48–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688500024498.
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Joseph Tyson's The Death of Jesus in Luke-Acts and Robert Tannehill's The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts, published in 1986, are good examples of the interpretive wealth being mined by scholars who are adopting literary-critical methods for approaching the Lukan writings. What most distinguishes these critics' approaches from older, more familiar ones is the claim that the Bible's historical narratives are imaginative re-enactments of history – thus, in form, more akin to fiction than to theology, biography, or history. Robert Alter called the Biblical stories ‘historicized fiction’, meaning in our case that the author of Luke and Acts employed the artifices of fiction-writing, among others, supplying feeling and motives and creating speeches and dialogue for his characters. Professors Tyson and Tannehill, and other literary scholars like them, are helping us better discern how these techniques were used in Luke and Acts, thus opening new windows to the characters, the way that the author ascribes intentions to them, the plot, themes, nuances, points of view, uses of irony, and word-plays and associations in the writings.
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Maulana, Bagas, E. Ngestirosa Endang Woro Kasih, and Suprayogi Suprayogi. "Genetic Structuralism Analysis On The Color Out Of Space By H.P. Lovecraft." IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature 10, no. 1 (June 28, 2022): 648–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v10i1.2788.
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This study aims to delineate the structural form of the story in H.P. Lovecraft’s Color Out of Space considering from the author biography, the social structure of New England and word view of the author toward the short story. The social structure of short story becomes the genetic or origin of literary work. The analysis of this study applied Lucien Goldman’s genetic structuralism and descriptive qualitative method. The data were gathered from H.P. Lovecraft biography, the social condition of New England society in 1920s, and the view of the author toward the condition of New England society in Color Out of Space. The study found out that Lovecraft view the condition of New England after world war two and the earthquake in New York to delineate the horror, cosmic and color story.
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Astvatsaturova, Vera Viktorovna. "On the history of the First Academic Publication of the Poetic heritage of A. A. Akhmatova. Letters of V. M. Zhirmunsky to L. K. Chukovskaya, 1966–1970." Russkaya literatura 1 (2022): 119–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2022-1-119-152.
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The publication presents 15 letters of Academician Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky (1891–1971) to Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya (1907–1996), that form a part of their correspondence of 1966–1970. The main topic of the letters was the preliminary work on the publication of the Collected Poems by A. А. Akhmatova in the Library of a Poet series. The correspondents discussed the establishment of a canonical text in Akhmatova’s poetic heritage, issues pertaining to attribution, as well as the facts of the poetess’ literary biography.
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Elgül, Ceyda. "Biography Series in Turkish: Blending the “Major” with “Minor”." Comparative Literature Studies 59, no. 4 (November 2022): 788–809. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.59.4.0788.
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ABSTRACT This article surveys the development and operation of biography in Turkish in light of a selection of publisher’s series presented in the region starting from the nineteenth century. In addition to introducing the biography series as gateways for a survey of life-writing activities in the region, the study explores how biographies translated from other languages appear in relation to the biographies that were originally written in Turkish. In this research setting, the terms “minor” and “major” are elaborated in two layers. First, the study interrogates the content of the selected series that embrace individuals from “minor” and “major” regions of the world; and second, it explores whether translation appears as a “minor” activity in these series that remains as an invisible form of textual production. In both contexts, the assets that represent the “minor” and “major” are considered not as active competitors but as the collaborators of the publisher’s commercial and social literary agendas.
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Lawson, Andrew. "William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words." Historical Materialism 19, no. 2 (2011): 137–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920611x573851.
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AbstractThis review-essay explores the theoretical and methodological innovations of Richard Godden’s William Faulkner, arguing that it makes a signal contribution to historical materialism in literary studies. The article focuses on Godden’s concept of ‘generative structure’, and relates the term to earlier usages by Aglietta and Jameson. After summarising the close readings of Faulkner’s texts performed by Godden, the article suggests an expanded rôle for biography in making the linkages between economy, psyche and text which form the basis of Godden’s analysis.
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Busygina, Lyudmila Vasiljevna, and Nadezhda Petrovna Yamaeva. "CREATIVITY OF EGOR ZAGREBIN IN MODERN LITERARY EDUCATION." Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies 16, no. 2 (June 27, 2022): 347–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2224-9443-2022-16-2-347-356.
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In this article, the features of studying the creative path and the artistic world of the Udmurt writer E. Zagrebin at the school lessons of Udmurt literature are considered. Much attention is paid to the contextual analysis of his literary works, which takes into account the biography of the writer and his creative laboratory, as well as the intertextual connections of a literary work and its interaction with other types of art. In order to form a holistic, versatile view of the writer's work, it is advisable to familiarize schoolchildren with the critical works that develop their ability to analyze literary works independently and help to form critical thinking. In addition, the functional and content potential of electronic forms of textbooks on Udmurt literature in the study of writers' creativity is revealed. Multimedia and interactive opportunities of an electronic textbook can become factors contributing to increasing the motivation of students to study Udmurt literature. For example, electronic simulators and final tests allow exciting and effective monitoring and evaluation of educational achievements of schoolchildren. The analysis of program materials on the creativity of E. Zagrebin presented in the article can be productively used by teachers for designing modern lessons of Udmurt literature.
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Cameron, Rebecca. "Sunny Stalter-Pace. Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance." Modern Drama 64, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 390–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.64.3.br8.
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Imitation Artist is a well-researched biography of a path-breaking performer, choreographer, and producer who elevated imitation to an art form. Stalter-Pace draws valuable connections between Hoffman’s career and popular American theatre and dance from the 1890s to the 1930s, with emphasis on the popularization of European modernism for American vaudeville audiences.
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R.M., Zhumashev, Myrzakhmetova A.Zh., and Kozhabekov D.S. "Alkei Margulan: the narrative of intellectual biography." Bulletin of the Karaganda university History.Philosophy series 111, no. 3 (September 30, 2023): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.31489/2023hph3/35-43.
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This article deals with a previously unknown subject of scientific intellectual biography of A.Kh. Margulan, known in the world of science as an archaeologist, creator of a scientific biography and collection of works of Ch. Valikhanov, as well as a collector and researcher of Kazakh folklore. The authors analyze the history of Alkei Margulan's participation in the discussion of the first fundamental research on the national history of the republic, “The History of the Kazakh SSR”. The article quotes excerpts from the speech of A.Kh. Margulan at the meeting of the Academic Council of the Institute of History of the USSR, in which he defended the concept of the book with arguments. The application of historical and biographical method in the study allowed to use literary and artistic methods of presentation of the material, to give the subject of intellectual biography an emotionality and to form the author's position in assessing the personality of A.H. Margulan. Alkei Margulan's research on ancient, medieval and new history of the Kazakhs allowed to present the world of the Kazakh heroic epos to the contemporaries, to ensure the continuity of the history of the Kazakhs for several millennia. The article is based on the involvement of new identified archival sources and materials of the periodical press
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Imamuddin, Basuni. "Longing for Freedom in Sayyid Quthb’s Poem Akhi Anta Hurrun Waraa Al-Sudud." Sunan Kalijaga: International Journal of Islamic Civilization 2, no. 2 (September 30, 2019): 263. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/skijic.v2i2.1484.
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A literary work is a repress entation of a character who lived in his time. A literary work usually represents the feelings and conditions of the writer at that time. Among the productive writers was Sayyid Quthb who had a balanced and adequate educational background, both in terms of religious and general education. Sayyid Qutb's life journey significantly changed his outlook. One of his experiences made him join a group to defend the rights of oppressed citizens. One form of his contribution to this cause was writing the poem "Akhi Anta Hurrun Waraa Al-Sudud" to commemorate the events at that time. This article discusses the biography, education, works, and an analysis of sixteen lines from Sayyid Quthb's poem "Akhi Anta Hurrun Waraa Al-Sudud".
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Arac, Jonathan. "Joseph Frank." boundary 2 47, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8193196.
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Joseph Frank (1918–2013) achieved fame as a literary scholar first with his three-part essay “Spatial Form in Modern Literature” (1945) and then with his five-volume critical biography Dostoevsky (1976–2002). This essay traces his career, emphasizing its divergence from the practices both of New Criticism at its start and of the theory movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and noting the crucial role played by Allen Tate and the Sewanee Review. Unfashionable independence, fidelity to personal fascination, and unremitting effort all play a role in scholarly accomplishment.
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Ayupova, Kamilya F., Maria A. Kozyreva, and Tatyana I. Akimova. "The Artist and His Oeuvre in G. K. Chesterton’s Biography: G. F. Watts." Journal of History Culture and Art Research 6, no. 5 (November 28, 2017): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v6i5.1259.
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<p>The article offers a close analysis G. K. Chesterton’s largely overlooked biographical essay <em>G. F. Watts </em>(1904). The authors study the genre specifics of the biography of an artist, as well as the problems of biographical theory. In <em>G. F. Watts</em>, which the authors define as the literary portrait of the artist, Chesterton traces his subject’s personality through his art. He views Watts’ creativity through his Victorianism. Analyzing the artist’s oeuvre Chesterton also reveals his own artistic methods, which he would later use in his novels. Being the critic’s early work, the book allows a closer view of the shaping of his philosophical ideas and artistic principles, which would take form in his later writings. The authors come to the conclusion that, for all its undeniable merits, the biography in a whole is rather subjective, and hence, its value lies in Chesterton’s general insights on fine art. </p>
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Denisova, E. A. "TO THE QUESTION OF LANGUAGE INTERFERENCE IN THE ANGLOPHONE LITERARY TEXT." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 30, no. 2 (May 7, 2020): 251–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-2-251-257.
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The study of bilingualism problems (code switching, language interference, foreign language insertions) is traditionally considered as a single interdisciplinary interaction: cognitive science, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, etc. and serves as a necessary basis for solving problems in the second language acquisition. Translation problems, language specificity of literary text also make up a single interface. The article considers the interrelation of the phenomena "author's bilingualism" and "language interference" on the material of the English-language literary text. The author of the analyzed work uses foreign language insertions to perform certain functions in the creation of multilingual speech situations, the transfer of national color, to create a certain atmosphere in the text, as an emphatic means, and also to indicate a variable form of discourse. Individual author's bilingualism is considered as a kind of bilingualism from the point of view of the literary text, as well as from the standpoint of the literary context of the bilingual personality of the writer. In this particular case, the biography and oeuvre of D. Fowles represent his bilingualism and language interference.
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Pugliatti, Paola. "Biography and Shakespeare’s Money." Critical Survey 30, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/cs.2018.300306.
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Robert Bearman’s book Shakespeare’s Money (2016) can be considered the first economic biography of William Shakespeare; but it is also the latest specimen of an innovative trend in Shakespeare biography which has come to the fore over the last ten years or so. While the vein of cradle-to-grave biographies seems to be exhausted, new attention is being devoted to parts of Shakespeare’s life, with an attitude that has been seen as ‘microhistorical’ or ‘disintegrationist’. The article will discuss this new kind of sensitivity to biography in general and Shakespeare biography in particular. It starts out by addressing certain developments in the theory and practice of life writing during the second half of the twentieth century, which are today becoming ever more substantial; it then examines the progress of Shakespeare biographies and, in particular, how the issue of money has been tackled since Nicolas Rowe first dealt with it.
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Roohi, Ehsan. "Between History and Ancestral Lore: A Literary Approach to the Sīra’s Narratives of Political Assassinations." Der Islam 98, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 425–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/islam-2021-0029.
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Abstract The assassinations of the Prophet Muḥammad’s antagonists were, according to the sīra, the harsh measures he took toward the consolidation of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula. These incidents’ narratives are often labeled in modern scholarship as “completely free of any tendentiousness.” This contention seems, however, to be grounded in the lack of full cognizance of the sources’ ulterior motives and of the extent of literary devices deployed in the traditional biography of the Prophet. The present study identifies the topoi appearing in the murder accounts of the Prophet’s political opponents that shed light on the extent of these stories’ dependence on each other and on the possibility of literary borrowing between them. This analysis shows that the use of literary tools in the sources are more widespread than what may appear at first sight. Our accounts exhibit striking resemblances with one another in both form and content, a point seriously undermining the trustworthiness of the sīra as a straightforward source for reconstructing the Prophet’s life.
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Egan, Gabriel. "Shakespeare and Marx, the writer and the society.Translated by E. Koltaevskaya." Voprosy literatury, no. 6 (December 20, 2019): 176–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-6-176-195.
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The work touches on the popular concept of the relationship between society and the writing process, suggesting the relevance of certain ideas stemming from Karl Marx for the study of the Shakespearean legacy. Marx’s idea that creative potential shines at its best in society, and that personal freedom emerges through interconnectedness of individuals, rings new and up to date in the modern world and for Shakespearean studies in particular. Through examples taken from Shakespeare’s plays and examination of professional organization of literary research in the form of academic journals and international associations, this paper argues that the Marxist image of society helps to consider literary creativity from a new viewpoint. Invoking the latest discoveries in the feld of Shakespeare biography and professional practices, especially his extensive collaboration with other playwrights, the article demonstrates how ideas of the two great thinkers and writers, Shakespeare and Marx, interact in the sphere of the best contemporary literary-critical practices.
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Fedoseeva (Akimova), M. S. "On the question of N.V. Gogol's literary reputation." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 8 (August 30, 2022): 626–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2208-03.
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The tradition of ambiguous interpretation of the personality and creativity of N.V. Gogol was laid down by himself and was continued by contemporaries and later interpreters. The article, based on a large literary and critical material, reviews the general trends in the perception of the figure and creativity of Gogol in the public consciousness for a century and a half, traces the process of folding the image of Gogol, which is complex and ambiguous, due to many factors (the exceptional complexity of the personality, the spiritual and creative evolution of Gogol, the obscurity of a number of episodes of biography, passion for mystifications, various cultural codes of interpreters, etc.). Traditions of the writer's perception in the middle of the XIX century, when the Gogol myth began to form, in the era of the Silver Age with its desire to free itself from mythology and create its own, the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, largely repeating the features of the previous two, are considered as the central. The article touches on such issues as the intentional formation of an image, the Gogol myth, the image of Gogol in art — from the XIX century to the postmodern.
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Qomar, Akhlis Syamsal, Warto Warto, and Akhmad Arif Musadad. "Sang Wirayuda: Biography of Raden Ronggo Prawirodirjo III of Madiun, Circa 1779-1810." East African Scholars Journal of Education, Humanities and Literature 5, no. 11 (November 9, 2022): 201–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/easjehl.2022.v05i11.001.
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One of the prominent figures in the history of Madiun, especially the late era of the old Javanese order, is Raden Ronggo Prawirodirjo III. For this reason, this article discusses the biography of Raden Ronggo Prawirodirjo III of Madiun circa 1779-1810. The sources used were primary and secondary sources in the form of the archive of Bundel Djokja Brieven, (Dj Br) no. 193, 409, ANRI collections, chronicles, magazines, and literature in the form of books. Furthermore, the research procedure covered the stages of heuristics, criticism, interpretation, and historiography. The research findings revealed that Raden Ronggo Prawirodirjo III was trahing kusuma rembesing madu [a descendant of high nobility] and trah wirayuda [a descendant of officers] from his parents. Raden Ronggo also served as Regent of Madiun between 1796-1810. Inflaming resistance to Dutch colonialism, he started it on November 20 until he died with his troops on December 17, 1810. In addition, Raden Ronggo was familiar with the santri (Islamic boarding school students) and the old Javanese literary works that influenced his psychology to determine some policies or decisions taken in his life.
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Nikoriak, Nataliia, and Aliona Matiychak. "Literary Specifics of Biographical Film Story: On the Issue of Genre Heredity." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 104 (December 27, 2021): 28–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2021.104.028.
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The genre heredity concept is articulated on the analysis example of I. Drach’s screen version of the biographical film story “I’m coming to you” (1970), dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka. The film is marked by innovative approach of I. Drach as a scriptwriter to the image of the poetess. Contrary to the tradition of documentary film to interpret her biography in a certain matrix key (as a fighter and revolutionary), Drach tried to identify Lesya Ukrainka primarily as a private individual, as the woman who knew how to sacrifice herself for the sake of love. Without aiming to show in detail the entire biography of the poetess, the author of the film story chose only a small fragment of her life – four years 1897–1901. In terms of biopic genre heredity, the article observes how this biographical film presents possible ways of processing and contamination of available documentary material (letters, memoirs, reminiscences of contemporaries) and integral creation by Lesya Ukrainka (her poetry, translations, renditions). Hence, the biopic on the basis of multi-genre text material appears as a kind of intertextual plexus. At the same time, the film pays much attention to the feelings, thoughts, creative impulses and state of mind of the heroine. By analogy with the poetics of literary writing, the form of the poetess’ inner monologue was chosen in accordance with the portrait film genre. It is clear that through the prism of Lesya’s life and creative experience the personal attitude of the poet I. Drach emerges towards understanding and reproducing the figure of creative personality in art: the author’ vision logically leads to those biographical episodes that in the existential sense appear the most significant.
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Khasanah, Shokhikhatul. "AN ANALYSIS OF ROMANTIC ASPECT AS PORTRAYED IN ‘THE REVOLT IN PARADISE” BY K’TUT TANTRI." JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature) 5, no. 2 (February 1, 2019): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.32682/jeell.v5i2.1004.
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This study was aimed to analyze the aspects of Romanticism manifested in the novel “The Revolt in Paradise” and behavior of character reflects Romanticism in “The Revolt in Paradise”. This study was based on the descriptive-qualitative research since the findings were going to be presented in a descriptive form. The data to be analyzed are gathered from two sources. The primary source is the novel itself; The Revolt in Paradise and the secondary sources includes many appropriate documents in the form of literary works, previous thesis, biography, theories and literary criticism, dictionaries and etc. Related to the instrument, the researcher employed herself as the human instrument. The data were analyzed through underlying and labeling. The result of the study found that there four aspects of Romanticism manifested in the novel; The Revolt in Paradise, they were: the love of nature, the memories of the past, the horror /gothic setting and the emotion; included; love, anger and hatred. This study also found that The Revolt in Paradise gave the vivid depiction of the Nationalism as the major behavior reflects Romanticism.
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Meylaerts, Reine. "Habitus and self-image of native literary author-translators in diglossic societies." Translation and Interpreting Studies 5, no. 1 (April 27, 2010): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tis.5.1.01mey.
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Since in many cases past and present the professional translation field is not — or is only weakly — differentiated, the transposability of dispositions acquired through experiences related both to other fields and to translators’ larger life conditions and social trajectory may play a fundamental role in a translator’s habitus. Research on translators’ socio-biographies therefore deserves special attention. For native literary author-translators who live and work in a diglossic society characterized by socio-linguistic conflicts between the translators’ working languages, the plural and dynamic internalization of this conflict and of broader linguistic and cultural hierarchies is likely to form one of the constitutive aspects of their habitus and self-image, of their literary and translational behavior. In the first part of this article, I propose a tentative typology of Belgian native author-translators’ habitus and self-image according to potentially different internalizations of the Belgian linguistic conflict in their broader socialization process. In the second part, I present relevant aspects of the socio-biography of Camille Melloy, a native literary author-translator who translated between conflicting cultures in early twentieth century Belgium.
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Altunbay, Müzeyyen. "Using Literature in Bibliotheraphy: Biography Sampling." Journal of Education and Training Studies 6, no. 11 (October 9, 2018): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v6i11.3593.
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Bibliotherapy is consisted of a combination of the Greek “biblion (book)” and “therapeia (therapy-healing)” which have become popular since the 20th century as one of the alternative therapy methods. It is used to make individuals identify themselves with the works they read through works of high literary and aesthetic value and make them powerful individuals in the spiritual direction by producing solutions to the problems they experience in this way. In other words, bibliotherapy can also be defined as bringing the right books to the individual at the right time. That is, the history of accepting the idea that books are good for man is very old. In this study, the importance of using biographies will be explained in one of the important alternative therapy methods, bibliotherapy. There are some criteria in the selection of books because they are the most important materials that form the basis of bibliotherapy. As it is known, the process is three dimensions as the advisee, book preference and consultant. However, it is not possible to use every work in bibliotherapy. It is important to use the works that are high in reality dimension and keeping a mirror on the problems of the individual in bibliotherapy. This process includes the works that will develop the imaginary world of the individual, as well as the works suitable for real life. As is known, the common point in biographies is not only the success that the person who wrote the biography has achieved, but also this person's struggle for reaching his goal is his patience and perseverance. As a result, in the process of bibliotherapy, reading the biographies that will increase the morale and motivation of the individual and develop self-confidence will contribute positively to the person. Moreover, the preference of the biographies of the positive role-model in the society will be the example for the individual.
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Rzepa, Teresa. "O biografii jako przedmiocie i rezultacie badań psychospołecznych." Polish Biographical Studies 1, no. 1 (2013): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2013.01.
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Biographies are one of the earliest literary forms, bringing together informative, academic, documentary and didactic functions. For ages the most famous of them have been presenting lives of celebrated and holy men to give example and shape deserved personality traits of the whole generations of readers. The times changed but biographies still form a separate genre and carry on to popularise certain manners. Various scientific disciplines took a keen interest in them due to their specific content. By social and humanistic sciences biography studies is treated as a subdiscipline defining important and original research trends. This article presents biographies as a subject and result of academic research.
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Nathaniel, Steven. "Telegraphic Surveillance, Psychic Dislocation, and the Data of Black Biography." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 80, no. 1 (March 2024): 29–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.2024.a921516.
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Abstract: Scholars have turned their attention to digital technologies' role in surveilling Blackness, but the ideas of privacy, data, and exploitation that inform this emerging research cannot be understood apart from their interlocked histories. This article examines encounters with the telegraph in mid-nineteenth century Black biography, focusing on the technology's role as a surveillance network that reshaped freedom-seekers' concept of American location. This historical precedent to location tracking inflicted a severe form of psychic dislocation that calls into question conventional understandings of the data of slavery. The existential disorientation recorded in this genre challenges inherited notions of history, while also guiding our navigation of contemporary technoculture and the social disparities it sustains.
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Greenwell, Amanda M. "Jessie Willcox Smith’s Critique of Teleological Girlhood in The Seven Ages of Childhood: “Sans Everything”." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 9, no. 1 (June 2017): 102–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.9.1.102.
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This article examines the intertextuality of verbal and visual elements in “The Seven Ages of Childhood,” a series of seven paintings by Jessie Willcox Smith reproduced in The Ladies’ Home Journal in 1908–09, and then bound in book form. Drawing on sources including Smith’s biography, The Ladies’ Home Journal, the captions for each piece (modelled on lines from Shakespeare’s As You Like It), and Carolyn Well’s verse contributions to the book form, this article argues that “Seven Ages” contains a subversive critique of the traditional teleological arc of girlhood, the aim of which was marriageability.
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Bystrova, Tat’yana A. "INTRODUCTION TO BIOFICTION. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY BY THE MODERN ITALIAN WRITERS." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 3 (2023): 282–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-3-282-290.
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The article highlights the specific features of the hybrid genre of biographical writing (also known as «fictional biography»), which has been theorized since the 1990s in France. The biographical novel is a fictional work about a real-life person with elements of authorial fiction. On the textual level, the subject of “hybridization” in biofiction can be both the content plan (speculation of events built around the documentary basis) and the form plan (use of indirect speech, stream of consciousness, insertion of other people’s text, etc.). At the pragmatic level, there is a breakdown of the traditional relationship between reader and text, as information recognized by the reader as fiction is presented as a biographical fact. The article also maps out a circle of questions for researchers and literary critics to address, in particular, the issue of genre boundaries and the development of terminology, the issue of the relationship between a character of biofiction and his historical prototype, the issue of relationship between an author and his work, the issue of the influence of new cultural and media factors on genres of biographical writing.
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KHAVZHOKOVA, L. B. "LITERARY HERITAGE OF AHMEDKHAN NALOYEV: MAJOR MILESTONES IN BIOGRAPHY AND PROBLEMS OF CREATIVITY (to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the writer)." Kavkazologiya, no. 2 (2021): 154–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.31143/2542-212x-2021-2-154-165.
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The article is devoted to the study of the life and literary heritage of one of the significant creative figures in the Kabardian literature of the 60s – 80s. Of the twentieth century, which determined the features of the formation and development trends of national prose of the specified period. The relevance of the stated topic is due to the fact that until now in the Adygeyan literary criticism there are no generalizing works on the study of milestones in the biography and a comprehensive analysis of the literary work of A. Naloev. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time a comprehensive substantive and structural-compositional analysis of the writer's works is carried out, starting from the first sketches in the form of miniatures and satirical and humorous stories, ending with larger genres – a story and a novel. The aim of the study is to recreate a complete biographical and creative picture of the life of a talented writer, philologist, educator, educator who raised a whole generation of artists and workers of culture and education. To achieve the goal, a number of tasks are solved, among the main ones – the study of the milestones of the biography of A. Naloev, the analysis of works, the consideration of the ideological and thematic orientation and the genre-style paradigm of the writer's work, determination of the role and place of his creative heritage in national literature and in general in cultural development Adyghe ethnos. The study used general scientific methods with an emphasis on the method of analysis, description and generalization. The results obtained have theoretical significance for further study of national literatures. They can become a significant practical help in writing various kinds of research papers, as well as in the preparation of special courses in universities and colleges.