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After Ancient Biography: Modern Types and Classical Archetypes 1st Edition

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After Ancient Biography: Modern Types and Classical Archetypes 1st ed. Edition Robert Fraser Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Robert Fraser

ISBN(s): 9783030351687, 9783030351694, 3030351688, 3030351696

Edition: 1st ed.

File Details: PDF, 2.37 MB

Year: 2020

Language: English

SKU: EB-22448086 Category: Fiction Tags: Ancient Biography, Classical Archetypes, Modern Types, Robert Fraser

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After Ancient Biography: Modern Types and Classical Archetypes 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030351687,9783030351694,3030351688,3030351696

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030351688
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030351687
Author: Robert Fraser

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?

Table contents:

1. Paris in Parallel: Classical Biography in an Age of Revolution

2. Ancient Biographers and Modern Classicists: “What Is Truth?”

3. Biography as Representation: Plutarch’s Parallel Lives

4. Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius

5. Biography as Persuasion: The Christian Gospels

6. Biography as Inner Drama: Athanasius’s Life of Antony

7. Heroic Biography: Carlyle & Co

8. Caustic Biography: Strachey & Co.

9. Conclusion: “Beauty Is Terror”

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