"The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…We find a rich and knowledgeable exploitation of oral forms which the author uses within the frame of the biographical genre. Through the use of proverbial narration, Fa­Iola presents a tale replete with magic, religion, divination, spirituality and various folklore elements. …”
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Being Geniuses Together: Ghostwriting and the Uncanny of Robert McAlmon’s and Kay Boyle’s (Out of) Joint Autobiography by Anna Linzie

“…The story of Modernism, often a form of contemporary self-definition, has been told and retold and contested in a chorus of autobiographical and biographical discourses competing for the right to present the True Story. …”
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Généalogie d’une enquête sur les « étranger-e-s du dedans ». Entretien avec Eleni Varikas by Eleni Varikas, Isabelle Clair

“…Scientific, historical, political, and biographical reasons mix in the talk of a feminist who came from Greece in the 1970’s, strengthened by the experience of struggle against dictatorship and nourished by democratic ideals, as she divulges her reasons for embarking on an endless investigation of the outcast, the « stranger from within » who bumps into theinvisible wallsof "a world claiming to haveabolished the privilegesof birth"(Penser le sexe et le genre [Think sexand gender],2006).…”
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Charitable acts and lived religion in the funeral sermons of early seventeenth-century women by Emily VINE

“…This article examines how the lived religious practices of early seventeenth-century English women were presented and memorialised, through an analysis of biographical writing and printed funeral sermons. Focusing on both Catholic and Protestant women who lived and died in London between 1600 and 1660, it suggests that women’s charity work, particularly that which involved active labours such as feeding the poor, tending the sick, and assisting with childbirth, was presented as a key aspect of their lived religion. …”
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Translating and publishing antiquity literary works in Lithuanian by Vanda Stonienė

“…Topical information, biographical and bibliographical data concerning individual Greek or Roman authors and their works, glossaries, and commentaries are characteristic features of the publications from the last four decades. …”
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The “Irresponsibility of the Outsider”? American Expatriates and Italian Fascism by Isabelle Richet

“…It focuses on expatriates in Italy during the twenty years of the fascist regime and combines a typological and biographical approach. It analyzes four possible stands toward the dictatorship —active pro-fascist, passive pro-fascist, passive anti-fascist, active anti-fascist—through the experience of four expatriates: George Nelson Page, scion of the famous Virginia planter family; Iris Cutting Origo, raised among the wealthy Anglo-American colony of Florence; the art critique Bernard Berenson and Robert Winston Wiley, a young radical from the Mid-West who contributed articles to the magazine Common Sense. …”
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Gottfried Semper, chroniques parisiennes 1849-1850. Contributions à une architecture comparée by Isabelle Kalinowski, Estelle Thibault

“…The series of texts he published in Romberg’s Zeitschrift für Praktische Baunkunst (Romberg’s Journal of Practical Architecture) between autumn of 1849 and the winter of 1850 composes a small, yet diverse ensemble which seems to reflect the wanderings of a largely biographically unstable period due to his coverage of a wide array of topics. …”
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Producing the Popular: John Monk Foster and the ‘Industrial Romance’ by Michael Sanders

“…It begins with a brief biographical sketch of Monk Foster and his writing career. …”
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Materializations of oricha voice through divinations in Cuban Santería by Kristina Wirtz

“…The analysis shows how approaching voice as a material phenomenon, sensible and physical, also activates its potential as a marker of social personhood, agentive force, and even biographical individuality. I trace the qualia of materials themselves and in flows of material substances and interconversions across objects, each contributing their own affordances, to argue for the central importance of transduction or signal conversion across media, and equilibration or the production of equivalences in producing oricha voice.…”
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Emancipazionismo e femminismo tra le pagine de L’Alleanza (1906-1911) by Tiziana Pironi

“…The pages of the journal reveal how an entire generation of women dealt with the broad spectrum of themes associated with the “Feminist issue”: not only the leading figures of the time (Maria Montessori, Teresa Labriola, Emilia Mariani and others), but also those less well known, about whom we have very little biographical information, but who nevertheless made a fundamental contribution to the debate generated in the journal.…”
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Autobiographies of Spanish Refugee Children at the Quaker Home in La Rouvière (France, 1940) : Humanitarian Communication and Children’s Writings by Célia Keren

“…This paper attempts to present and tackle some of those, through the study of fifteen biographical notebooks written around 1940-1941 by Spanish refugee children who lived at La Rouvière in France, in a colony created and run by the American Quakers Friends Service Committee (AFSC). …”
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About the Little-Known Pages of the Biography of Tseren-Dordzhi Nominkhanov: the period of formation, military activity and studies at the Institute (1918th–1930s) by Elza P. Bakaeva, Sanan A. Nominkhanov

“…The information obtained as a result of the interviews provides an opportunity to expand the understanding of the difficult life path of the scientist and the fate of his people, testifies to the relevance of using an integrated approach in biographical research. Results. To date, there are different spellings of the scientist's name in the scientific literature, which is due to his use of both variants in the early and late periods of his activity, as well as the peculiarities of the Kalmyk onomasticon. …”
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Migawki z biografii Jadwigi Prendowskiej (1832–1915). Codzienność w niecodzienności powstania styczniowego by Ewelina Maria Kostrzewska

“…Her memories were analyzed in biographical terms of a woman living in the 19th century, who actively participated in the national uprising, going far beyond the stereotype of the “good Samaritan” caring for the wounded insurgents. …”
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Income Inequality: A Journey of 200 Years of Economic Thought by Nurkholisoh Ibnu Aman

“…He achieved it by drawing from a diverse source, including original writings, correspondence, and biographical accounts of luminaries in the economics discipline.…”
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The Minangkabau Woman Against Discrimination: Rahmah El Yunusiyyah's Islamic Education Thoughts (1900-1969) by Agus Mahfudin Setiawan, Nurul Hidayati, Uswatun Hasanah, Briliant Windy Khairunnisa

“…The study in this article is conducted through historical methodology with a biographical and literature approach. The primary data source in this study is the manuscript Boekoe peringatan 15 tahoen Dinijjah School Poeteri Padang Pandjang. …”
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CREDIBILITY COMMITMENT AND PEACE BUILDING IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA by CHINEDU EKPERECHUKWU ETI, SUNDAY DIDAM AUDU, GOODNEWS OSAH

“…The method of data gathering is drawn from literature and biographic narratives of the actors and victims of the conflict. …”
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Delphine Demelas, Sur un air épique, sur un air lyrique : célébrer le bon connétable. Édition critique et commentaires du manuscrit 428 (306) de la bibliothèque municipale d’A... by Delphine Demelas

“…The first text, historical, epic, biographical, and poetic at the same time, has a considerable importance in the literary production of the day as the last chanson de geste to be written in French. …”
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Jack London and White Fang: a lost struggle by Zilberstein, Gleb, Zilberstein, Svetlana, Rocco, Richard M., Righetti, Pier Giorgio

“…Despite the claims by his biographers that he used opium, morphine, and heroin on a regular basis this assertion could not be confirmed by the chemical analyses of the objects here tested. …”
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The life and riot of Coptic Patriarch Shenouda III (1923-2012) by O.V. Nizamutdinova

“…The political image of Shenouda III was reconstructed using the psychological and biographical methods; based on the historical approach, the historical reality of the Patriarch’s times was analyzed. …”
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Por que você não coleciona selos como todo mundo? Velhice e objetos de coleção na trajetória de Urbano, O Aposentado by Leila Beatriz Ribeiro

“…In the various collections of "useless things", the memories evoked by the objects - many of them biographical - are mirror specular and subjective relations to the re-ordered world of "Urbano". …”
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