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The growing impact of psychological and psychoanalytic theories on literary creation and criticism clearly played a central role in shaping the ‘new biography’, and its emphases on identity rather than event or action.
The best biographies of 2020, books shortlisted by the National Book Critics' Circle, and discussed by author and criticm Elizabeth Taylor.
These are the top trending biographies and memoirs—the titles people can't stop reading, talking, and tweeting about, according to Today's Top Books.
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- Biographical literature today
In the United States, Great Britain, and the rest of the Western world generally, biography today enjoys a moderate popular and critical esteem. In the year 1929, at the height of the biographical “boom,” there were published in the United States 667 new biographies; in 1962 exactly the same number appeared, the population in the meantime having in...
In the United States, Great Britain, and the rest of the Western world generally, biography today enjoys a moderate popular and critical esteem. In the year 1929, at the height of the biographical “boom,” there were published in the United States 667 new biographies; in 1962 exactly the same number appeared, the population in the meantime having in...
- Paul Murray Kendall
Mar 19, 2021 · The best biographies—as shortlisted by the National Book Critics Circle in 2021, discussed by author and critic Elizabeth Taylor.
Jan 1, 2017 · While biography has been on the rise in academia since the 1980s, this volume highlights the theoretical implications of the biographical turn that is changing the humanities.
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Learning from the experiences of others is what makes us human. At the core of every biography is the story of someone’s humanity. While biographies come in many sub-genres, the one thing they all have in common is loyalty to the facts, as they’re available at the time. Here’s how we define biography, a look at its origins, and some ...
