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the theoretical implications of the biographical turn that is changing the humanities. Chapters cover subjects such as gender, religion, race, new media and microhistory, presenting biography as a research methodology suited not only for historians but also for explorations in areas including literature studies, sociology, economics and politics.
Sep 27, 2016 · 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.
- 1st Edition
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.
Sep 13, 2016 · 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.
- Hans Renders, Binne de Haan, Jonne Harmsma
- Routledge, 2016
- 1315469553, 9781315469553
- The Biographical Turn: Lives in history
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.
- Paperback
- 1
some biographers argue that a “biographical turn” in Europe commenced as early as the 1980s (Lässig, 2008, p. 3). So perhaps it is more accurate to say that there continues to be public interest in biography, interest that many aca-demics now share.
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We have had the linguistic turn, the cultural turn, the spatial turn and in recent years even the affective turn. This volume elaborates on the concept of the biographical turn: the emergence of biographical research as an accepted critical scholarly method of investigation since 1980.
