Enlightenment and Identity : Franklin, Work, and Play by Michael Zuckerman

“…America was seen by Europeans as a place of possibility from the first and none better than Benjamin Franklin proved these democratic dreams could become reality, recent biographers seeing him as the first American. Yet Franklin was a man of many identities and many masks, to please his publics and rise in the world. …”
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La duquesa de Abrantes, una francesa entre España y Portugal by Francisco Lafarga

“…After providing information on the biographical aspects of the Duchess of Abrantes’ large literary output, attention is paid to her Souvenirs d’une ambassade et d’un séjour en Espagne et en Portugal, with the aim of unveiling the extent of the author’s direct knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese matters –notwishtanding the importance of bookish sources–, the voyager’s real concern about the particular situation of both countries and the parallelisms that she establishes between them.…”
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Quels murs pour quelle école ? Architecture scolaire, normes scolaires et figures d’élèves by Anne Dizerbo

“…Interviews with 15-year-old pupils were conducted and interpreted from the hermeneutical perspective of biographical research in education. Data interpretation highlighted the close relation between school’s architecture, its establishment within an urban structure and the building of school norms and students’ profiles.…”
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Angelo Mangiarotti, Posizione dell’architettura (Position de l’architecture), 1952 : un film comme première sédimentation intellectuelle by Yves Ambroset

“…The aim of this study is to analyse this document, placing it in its biographical and historical context. It aims to identify the formal characteristics of the work and its content, at a crucial time for the development of the architect's architectural language. …”
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Angelo Mangiarotti, Posizione dell’architettura (Position de l’architecture), 1952 : un film comme première sédimentation intellectuelle by Yves Ambroset

“…The aim of this study is to analyse this document, placing it in its biographical and historical context. It aims to identify the formal characteristics of the work and its content, at a crucial time for the development of the architect's architectural language. …”
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Biographie et histoire dans la jeune République. by Naomi Wulf

“…Beyond biography as a traditional genre, many historians have reinvented a biographical approach to history in which they do not merely tell a life‑story, but study individuals as they reveal and reflect the period in which they live. …”
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Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain and the Horizon of Risk by Aaron Jaffe

“…It argues that Beck supplies an apt interpretive framework for understanding these relationships and overcoming the categorical impasses between the two narrative words at work in Power's novel, the biographical situatedness of Laura Rowen Bodey's illness and the corporate history of the Clare conglomerate.…”
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O Japão na literatura brasileira atual by Marcel Vejmelka

“…In contemporary Brazilian literature there is a remarkable presence of Japanese topics, by writers without any biographical relationship to Japan – in our case Bernardo Carvalho, Adriana Lisboa, and João Paulo Cuenca. …”
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Le Perroquet de Flaubert de Julian Barnes : genèse d’une passion littéraire by Vanessa Guignery

“…The writer’s travel notebooks, notes, plans and drafts, as well as the letter he sent his editor to defend his manuscript, shed light on the original means chosen by Barnes to celebrate Flaubert while diverging from traditional biographical and critical approaches.…”
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