A Brief History of Biographies - Andrew Brown
from Plutarch to celebs
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Aeschylus was attending a boxing-match at the Isthmian games: whenever one of the boxers was hit by the other, the audience roared. Brasidas the Spartan picked up some dried figs: out ran a mouse and nipped him, so that he dropped the fruit. Diogenes the philosopher saw someone using his hands to drink, and threw away his own cup. These little stories are all made to yield moral lessons. --
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2011Uitgever: Hesperus Press/Trafalgar Square131 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1843919729ISBN-13: 9781843919728Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2011, 131pp. Paperback. In very good condition. "The works of T. S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, and more are considered in this exploration of the historical fascination with life-writing Meditating on whether the success of celebrity biographies is a mark of today’s prurient, voyeuristic timesor rather, if the fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of human nature, reflected in literary tastes through the agesthis investigation into the history of...
