UID:
almafu_9959243728102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (379 pages.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-674-03821-5
Inhalt:
Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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I. Getting Started --
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1. The Task of Biography --
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2. What Is Your Agenda? --
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3. Defining Your Audience --
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4. Researching Your Subject --
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5. The Shape of a Life --
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II. Composing a Life-Story --
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6. The Starting Point --
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7. Birthing Your Subject --
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8. Childhood and Youth --
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9. Love Stories --
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10. Life’s Work --
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11. The Twilight Years --
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12. Ending Your Story --
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III. Variations on a Theme --
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13. Autobiography and Memoirs --
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14. Memoir --
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15. Truth—and Its Consequences --
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16. The Afterlife --
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Notes --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Acknowledgments --
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Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-674-06615-4
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-674-02796-5
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4159/9780674038219
