Some personal documents (autobiographies,diaries,memoirs, andletters) rank among the world’s greatest literature. Some examples of thisbiographical literaturewere written withposterityin mind, others with no thought of their being read by anyone but the writer. Some are in a highly polished literary...
Biography - Narrative, Genre, Today: In the United States, Great Britain, and the rest of the Western world generally, biography today enjoys a moderate popular and critical esteem. In the year 1929, at the height of the biographical “boom,” there were
ADJ.brief, thumbnailThe talk began with a thumbnail sketch of the political situation at that time.| biographical, character VERB + SKETCHgive sb PREP.~ ofHe gave us character sketches of all his eccentric relations. 3short comic scene
aSeveral fine historical research publications document the beginnings of music therapy in the United States. They include discussion regarding music therapy practice in nineteenth century America (Davis, 1987), biographical sketches of music therapy pioneers (Davis, 1993), practice in New York City ...
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Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series|John Addington Symonds With this conclusionCarducci—and no finer critic ever lived—is in agreement. Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study|Edward Hutton British Dictionary definitions for Carducci ...
of Colley Cibber, Comedianin the early 18th—these are representative examples of biographical literature from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment. The latter period itself produced three works that are especially notable for their very different reflections of the spirit of the times as well...
The firstWho’s Whowas published in London (1849) as a handbook of titled classes, listing only names without biographical sketches. Since 1899 the format has been that of a biographicaldictionary, with primarily British emphasis; annual and enlarged publication has continued.Who’s Who in America...
Who’s Who, any of numerous biographical dictionaries that give brief and pertinent information about prominent living persons who are distinguished in a particular field or by official position or public standing and who have, in most cases, supplied da
Mark BlaugandHoward R. Vane(eds.),Who’s Who in Economics, 4th ed. (2003), contains biographical information on 1,500 economists, based on their frequency of citation in economics journals.Mark Blaug,Great Economists Before Keynes(1986, reissued 1997), provides thumbnail sketches of the ideas...