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Mapping Lives - The Uses of Biography (Paperback, New ed)
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Mapping Lives - The Uses of Biography (Paperback, New ed)
Series: British Academy Centenary Monographs
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Why biography? This collection of essays on the problems and
functions of biography, and particularly the biography of writers,
thinkers and artists, investigates a subject of enduring importance
for those interested in culture and society. In the last century,
it has been a controversial subject, as old models of biographical
writing were attacked and superseded, while critics and theorists
questioned the once self-evident value of the biography of writers.
Yet the genre continues to attract notable authors and is
unfailingly popular with readers.
The present volume, while containing essays by practicing
biographers, is intended primarily as a stimulus to critical
thinking. It focuses on the diverse functions assumed by
life-writing in different European countries at different periods,
challenging both the notion of a genre with constant
characteristics and aims and the view of modern biography as the
happy culmination of centuries of progress.
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