Sketches and Studies [with Biographical Introduction]
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This revolution in publishing made books available to a larger audience of readers. In addition, affordable paperback editions of popular biographies were published for the first time. Periodicals began publishing a sequence of biographical sketches.
With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. University of North Carolina Press. Biography portal Literature portal. A biography , or simply bio , is a detailed description of a person's life. The independent genre of biography as distinct from general history writing, began to emerge in the 18th century and reached its contemporary form at the turn of the 20th century.
Autobiographies became more popular, as with the rise of education and cheap printing, modern concepts of fame and celebrity began to develop. Autobiographies were written by authors, such as Charles Dickens who incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels and Anthony Trollope , his Autobiography appeared posthumously, quickly becoming a bestseller in London [8] , philosophers, such as John Stuart Mill , churchmen — John Henry Newman — and entertainers — P.
Human behavior would be explained through Darwinian theories. The development of psychoanalysis led to a more penetrating and comprehensive understanding of the biographical subject, and induced biographers to give more emphasis to childhood and adolescence. Clearly these psychological ideas were changing the way biographies were written, as a culture of autobiography developed, in which the telling of one's own story became a form of therapy. British critic Lytton Strachey revolutionized the art of biographical writing with his work Eminent Victorians , consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era: His narrative demolished the myths that had built up around these cherished national heroes, whom he regarded as no better than a "set of mouth bungled hypocrites".
The book achieved worldwide fame due to its irreverent and witty style, its concise and factually accurate nature, and its artistic prose. In the s and '30s, biographical writers sought to capitalize on Strachey's popularity by imitating his style. Robert Graves I, Claudius , stood out among those following Strachey's model of "debunking biographies. This latter form's appeal to readers was based on curiosity more than morality or patriotism. By World War I , cheap hard-cover reprints had become popular.
The decades of the s witnessed a biographical "boom. The feminist scholar Carolyn Heilbrun observed that women's biographies and autobiographies began to change character during the second wave of feminist activism. She cited Nancy Milford's biography Zelda , as the "beginning of a new period of women's biography, because "[only] in were we ready to read not that Zelda had destroyed Fitzgerald , but Fitzgerald her: In recent years, multimedia biography has become more popular than traditional literary forms.
Along with documentary biographical films , Hollywood produced numerous commercial films based on the lives of famous people. CD-ROM and online biographies have also appeared.
This is an example of the Personal Statement in the Biographical Sketch that experience supervising undergraduate and/or graduate students in research in. Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Fellowship Application.
Unlike books and films, they often do not tell a chronological narrative: Biography-Portraits were created in , by the German artist Ralph Ueltzhoeffer. Media scholar Lev Manovich says that such archives exemplify the database form, allowing users to navigate the materials in many ways. In recent years, debates have arisen as to whether all biographies are fiction, especially when authors are writing about figures from the past.
President of Wolfson College at Oxford University, Hermione Lee argues that all history is seen through a perspective that is the product of our contemporary society and as a result biographical truths are constantly shifting. So the history biographers write about will not be the way that it happened; it will be the way they remembered it. Biographical research is defined by Miller as a research method that collects and analyses a person's whole life, or portion of a life, through the in-depth and unstructured interview, or sometimes reinforced by semi-structured interview or personal documents.
There are many largely unacknowledged pitfalls to writing good biographies, and these largely concern the relation between firstly the individual and the context, and, secondly, the private and public.
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The A—Z of Social Research: He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend.
Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in , but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India.
Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet.
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The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener , Fruit-Gathering , and The Fugitive , do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings , the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora , Ghare-Baire [ The Home and the World ], and Yogayog [Crosscurrents].
Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in