Book: Author and Biography, Writing and Reading

The collection contains papers from Author and Biography, Writing and Reading seminar held at the Faculty of Philosophy of the HSE in February - April, 2011. It confronts theoretical and methodological issues of biography and autobiography studies and offers analyses of particular (auto)biographical texts from the Antiquity to the XX century. The book is primarily aimed at historians, literary historians, literary scholars, psychologists. It is also recommended for non-specialist audiences interested in the Renaissance history and theory, history of the Russian Raskol, autobiographies, the Italian Renaissance culture.

The collection contains papers from Author and Biography, Writing and Reading seminar held at the Faculty of Philosophy of the HSE in February - April, 2011. It confronts theoretical and methodological issues of biography and autobiography studies and offers analyses of particular (auto)biographical texts from the Antiquity to the XX century. The book is primarily aimed at historians, literary historians, literary scholars, psychologists. It is also recommended for non-specialist audiences interested in the Renaissance history and theory, history of the Russian Raskol, autobiographies, the Italian Renaissance culture.