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Hemecker, Wilhelm

Wilhelm W. Hemecker, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Geschichte der Biographie Wien und Universität Wien.

Biography in Theory</a>

Biography in Theory

This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21st centuries, the reader includes programmatic texts by authors such as Herder, Carlyle, Dilthey, Proust, Freud, Kracauer, Woolf and Bourdieu.