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• Chapter I: Paris in Parallel: Classical Biography in an Age of Revolution.2.
• Chapter II: Ancient Biographers and Modern Classicists: "What is Truth?".3.
• Chapter III: Biography as Representation: Plutarch's Parallel Lives.4.
• Chapter IV: Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius.5.
• Chapter V: Biography as Persuasion: The Christian Gospels.6.
• Chapter VI: Biography as Inner Drama: Athanasius's Life of Saint Antony.7.
• Chapter VII: Heroic Biography: Carlyle & Co.7.
• Chapter VIII: Caustic Biography: Strachey & Co.8. Conclusion: "Beauty is Terror".
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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?
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• Introduction Julie Stauder-Porchet, Elizabeth Frood, Andreas Stauder
• Narrating Biography versus Biographical Indexicality Michael Silverstein
• Self-Representation in Mesopotamia: The Literary Evidence Christopher Woods From Living a Life to Creating a Fit Memorial John Baines
• Genres and Textual Prehistories of the Egyptian Autobiography in the Old Kingdom Julie Stauder-Porchet
• (Auto-)Bioconographies versus (Auto-)Biographies in Old Kingdom Elite Tombs: Complexity Expansion of Image and Word Reflecting Personality Traits by Competitive Individuality Rene van Walsem
• Autobiography versus Biography in the Second Person and Biography in the Third Person: Textual Formats, Authorship, and Apocryphal/Pseudepigraphic Works Pascal Vernus Cliches in Ancient Egyptian Autobiographies Laurent Coulon
• Expressions of Royal Agency: Forms of the Verb in the Old Kingdom Event Autobiography Andreas Stauder The Social Context of Biographies (Old and Middle Kingdom) Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia
• Images of Social Ascent in Biographical Self-Presentations from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom Katalin Anna Kothay
• jnk wr m njw.t=f : References to njw.t, Town, City in Biographies of the Second Intermediate Period Sabine Kubisch
• Living a Religious Life: The Display of Religious Experience in Egyptian Autobiographies Maria Michela Luiselli Participation in Religious Ceremonies, as Related in Egyptian Biographies David Klotz.
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(Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience, sometimes as narratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Egyptian (auto-) biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. The present volume brings together specialists from a range of relevant periods, approaches, and interests. The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: anthropological and contrastive perspectives; the original Old Kingdom settings; text format and language; social dimensions; and religious experience.
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• Preface * Introduction * The Plates.
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Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) was only 25 when he died from tuberculosis, but in his short life he established a reputation as one of the most accomplished - and controversial - illustrators of his day, whose contribution to the visual language of Art Nouveau was profound. Astonishingly, all his work was created in the course of only six years, and is today instantly recognizable for its use of black ink and flowing lines on white paper - and its erotically charged subject matter. Not all his work was lubricious - some of it was political, poking fun at the decadent mores of the time - but much of it was, taking its stylistic inspiration from Japanese shunga and Greek vase painting and its thematic inspiration from mythology, history, poetry and drama. This beautifully designed, accessibly priced gift book offers a wealth of illustrations by Beardsley, and introduces his exquisitely wrought drawings and prints to a new audience. With a text by Jan Marsh and around 110 illustrations from the extensive collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book brings together a carefully curated selection of works from Beardsley's tragically short but highly productive life.
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"Brandon Stanton's new book, Humans ... shows us the world. Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world. Traveling to more than forty countries, he conducted interviews across continents, borders, and language barriers. Humans is the definitive catalogue of these travels. The faces and locations will vary from page to page, but the stories will feel deeply familiar. Told with candor and intimacy, Humans will resonate with readers across the globe-providing a portrait of our shared experience"-- Provided by publisher

The novel traces Toole's life in New Orleans through his adolescence, his stay at Columbia University in New York, his attempts to escape the burden of his demanding mother and his weak father, his retreat into a world of his own creation, and finally the invention of astonishing characters that came to living reality for both readers (and the author himself) in his prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces.

• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Prologue: Reflections on Historiography and Biography and the Study of Africa's Past
• Klaas van Walraven
• Part 1: Methodological Insights
• 1 Human Symbols
• The Biographical Pursuit and the Language of Symbolism in Contemporary South Africa
• Lindie Koorts
• 2 'Your Surroundings Don't Make You-- You Must Rise above all that'
• The Home in Life Histories as Site of Resistance to Racial Violence, Cape Town, South Africa
• Elena Moore
• 3 From Life Histories to Social History
• Narrating Social Change through Multiple Biographies
• Iva Pesa
• Part 2: Persons in Transitions
• 4 The Effervescence of Individual Life: Cornelius Badu, Born 1847 in Elmina, Gold Coast
• Paul Glen Grant
• 5 The Leopard that Came to Laikom: Michael Timneng in Colonial Cameroon
• Jacqueline de Vries
• 6 Underground Struggles: The Early Life of Jack Hodgson
• Duncan Money
• Part 3: Discursive Worlds
• 7 Binding Words: Student Biographical Narratives and Religious Conversion
• Morgan Robinson
• 8 A Muslim Boy in Sunday School
• Abdullah Abdurahman's Early Childhood and Education in Cape Town at the End of the Nineteenth Century
• Eve Wong
• 9 Barthelemy Boganda between Charisma and Cosmology
• Interpretive Perspectives on Biography in Equatorial African History
• Klaas van Walraven
• 10 A Road not Taken? The Biography of Laurent Kabila (1939-2001)
• Erik Kennes
• Index.
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This volume investigates the development of biographical study in African history and historiography. Consisting of 10 case studies, it is preceded by an introductory prologue, which deals with the relationship between historiography and different forms of biographical study in the context of Western history-writing but especially African (historical and anthropological) studies. The first three case studies deal with the methodological insights of biographical studies for African history. This is followed by three case studies dealing with personas living through fundamental societal transitions, and four case studies focusing on the discursive dimensions of biographical subjects (including religion, cosmology and ideology). Countries or regions discussed include South Africa, Zambia, Gold Coast, Cameroon, Tanganyika, Congo-Kinshasa and the Central African Republic in colonial times. Contributors are Lindie Koorts, Elena Moore, Iva Pesa, Paul Glen Grant, Jacqueline de Vries, Duncan Money, Morgan Robinson, Eve Wong, Klaas van Walraven, Erik Kennes.
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From the award-winning author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. John Updike compared them to 'the sun coming out on an Easter morning'. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs. The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. JRR Tolkien snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Loenard Bernstein admired them. Muhammad Ali called them 'little sissies'. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. No one has remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary, 'Think what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.' One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman Pilcher. From the bestselling author of Ma'am Darling comes a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.
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• Vom Arbeiterkind zur Professur : Gesellschaftliche Relevanz, empirische Befunde und die Bedeutung biographischer Reflexionen / Christine Möller, Markus Camper, Julia Reuter, Frerk Blome
• Sozialwissenschaftliche Rahmung
• Sphärendiskrepanz und Erwartungsdilemma : Migrationsspezifische Ambivalenzen sozialer Mobilität / Aladin El-Mafaalani
• Bildungsaufstieg : Realität, Utopie und, oder Ideologie? / Christoph Butterwegge
• Literarische Zeugnisse von Bildungsaufsteiger*innen zwischen Autobiographie und Sozioanalyse / Julia Reuter
• Autobiographische Notizen
• Gleich und doch verschieden : Erinnerungsbruchstücke / Klaus-Michael Bogdal
• "Wo gehöre ich hin?" : Gedanken eines Arbeiterkindes / Manfred Brill
• Solidarität als Bedingung von sozialer Mobilität / Zoe Clark
• Autobiographische Notizen eines 'Aufsteigers' : 'Wege einer anderen Bildung' / Reinhard Damm
• Soziale Herkunftserfahrung als Sensibilisierung für Chancengleichheit und Diversität / Martin Eisend
• Das Professorenkostüm / Christine M. Graebsch
• Von wo ich herkomme / Sabine Hark
• "Hintertreppen zum Elfenbeinturm" : Ein Beitrag zur Enttabuisierung der sozialen Herkunft von Bildungsaufsteiger*innen / Elke Kleinau
• Vom Bauernsohn zum Prorektor : Rückblick und Ausblick eines Mathematikers / Aloys Krieg
• "Was soll aus dem Mädchen denn werden : alte Tante auf dem Hof?" : Oder : Der lange Weg von der ländlichen Hau swirtschaftsgehilfin zur Universitätsprofessorin / Doris Lemmermöhle
• Die Entdeckung am Sonnentor von Tiahuanaco / Martin Lörsch
• Statuspassagen im Lebensverlauf : Eine autobiographische Annäherung / Rainer Müller
• "Mach was aus dir, aber bleib' der Alte!" : Von Auswärtsspielen am Rande erfolgreicher Wege / Jürgen Prott
• Putzfrau oder Professorin : Hat man die Wahl? / Rosa Maria Puca
• Herkunft versus Zukunft / Pakize Schuchert-Güler
• Von der Hauptschule an die Hochschule / Ahmet Toprak
• Keine Rückkehr nach Wattenscheid / Jürgen Vogt
• Das UNTEN spürst Du immer / Klaus Weber-Teuber
• Dem weissen Kaninchen gefolgt... / Andreas Wrede
• Soziobiographische Kommentierung
• Vom 'Arbeiterkind' zur Professur : Merkmale eines erfolgreichen Aufstiegs / Michael Hartmann
• Über Habitusmuster und Hilieuherkunft von Bildungsaufsteiger*innen im akademischen Feld / Andrea Lange-Vester
• Im Dialog
• "Auch der Homo academicus hat eine Herkunft!" : Im Dialog mit Initiativen von und für Arbeiterkinder in der Wissenschaft und der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft über herkunftssensible Nachwuchsförderung
• Autor*innenverzeichnis