After Ancient Biography

Modern Types and Classical Archetypes

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvRobert Fraser

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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-26
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Life Writing
Antal sidor273
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030351717

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Robert Fraser is a biographer, critic and poet. The Chameleon Poet (2001), his biography of George Barker, was Spectator Book of the Year in 2002, and in May 2012 Night Thoughts, his life of David Gascoyne, topped the Independent’s list of Best Ten New Biographies. He has also published books on Marcel Proust (1994) and on the classicist and anthropologist Sir James Frazer (1990), whose magnum opus The Golden Bough he edited in 1994. He has held academic positions in Ghana, Leeds, London, and Trinity College Cambridge, UK. He is Emeritus Professor of Literature in the Open University, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

1. Chapter I: Paris in Parallel: Classical Biography in an Age of Revolution.- 2. Chapter II: Ancient Biographers and Modern Classicists: “What is Truth?”.- 3. Chapter III: Biography as Representation: Plutarch’s Parallel Lives.- 4. Chapter IV: Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius.- 5. Chapter V: Biography as Persuasion: The Christian Gospels.- 6. Chapter VI: Biography as Inner Drama: Athanasius’s Life of Saint Antony.- 7. Chapter VII: Heroic Biography: Carlyle & Co..- 7. Chapter VIII: Caustic Biography: Strachey & Co..- 8. Conclusion: “Beauty is Terror”.