Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice
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In this new critical study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in nineteenth and twentieth century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction–debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it a… More >>
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Merriam-Webster’s Biographical Dictionary
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Newly revised and updated, Merriam-Webster’s Biographical Dictionary provides essential information about important people from throughout history and around the world. This comprehensive reference is one of the most extensive collections of biographies ever presented in a single volume–from Michelangelo to Richard Nixon, Liang Ch’i-ch’ao to Theidore Geisel.Amazon.com Review
Weighing in at a hefty 1,170 pages, this addictive reference volume supplies bri… More >>