After Ancient Biography - Modern Types and Classical Archetypes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and film. Crucially it asks what modern biographers can learn from their ancient predecessors. Are the challenges involved in life-writing still the same? Have working methods changed, and in what ways? What in the context of biographical writing is truth, and how are its interests best served? How is it possible, now as then, honestly to convey a life?

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
Release date:	August 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Robert Fraser
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	273
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-035168-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	3-03-035168-8
Barcode:	9783030351687

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