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The noise gathered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that Donald Anderson musters here, fragments of the humor and horror of life, the absurdities that mock reason and the despair that yields laughter. Gathering Noise from My Life offers sonic shards of a tune at once jaunty and pessimistic, hopeful and hopeless, and a model for how we can make sense of the scraps of our lives. "We are where we've been and what we've read," the author says, and gives us his youth in Montana, the fami

Anderson, Donald, --- Autobiography --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- History and criticism --- Technique

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Band 23 der Reihe befasst sich mit politischen Memoiren in deutscher und britischer Perspektive. Zu den Persönlichkeiten, deren Memoiren hier im Gesamtzusammenhang der Tradition politischer Erinnerungsliteratur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts betrachtet werden, gehören Disraeli, Gladstone und Churchill auf britischer sowie Bismarck, Adenauer und Heuss auf deutscher Seite. Volume 23 of the series deals with the political memoirs from German and British perspectives. Among the individuals whose memoirs are considered here, in context of the tradition of the political memoir-literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, are Disraeli, Gladstone and Churchill on the British side, and Bismarck, Adenauer and Heuss on the German.

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Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity. He shows how creative writers developed the lives of popular heroes like Homer, Aesop and Alexander and how the Christian gospels grew from bare sayings to full lives. In imperial Rome biography flourished in the works of Greek writers: Lucian's satire, Philostratus' full sophistic orchestration, Porphyry's intellectual portrait of Plotinus. Perhaps surprisingly, it is not political biography or the lives of poets that provide the main artery of ancient biography, but various kinds of philosophical, spiritual and ethical lives. Applying a consistent biographical reading to a representative set of surviving texts, this book opens up the manifold but often neglected art of biography in classical antiquity.

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