Construire le goût pour la Renaissance française : les pérégrinations des dames de Germain Pilon au xixe siècle by Justine Gain

“…In the nineteenth century, as the idea of a museum took shape in the Paris region, the first attempts at museography and restoration appeared. An object biography of four wooden sculptures of women attributed to Germain Pilon at the time provides an opportunity to explore these intertwined phenomena. …”
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As Camp as a Row of Pink Tents: Stephen’s Portrait of Mr W. S. by Samuel Slote

“….’, which is referenced within ‘Scylla’, and which also propounds a theory of Shakespeare’s artistic production in terms of his biography. Furthermore, like the various characters in Wilde’s story, Stephen’s theory is propelled primarily from the internal evidence of Shakespeare’s texts. …”
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Aux sources du sensationnel : Wilkie Collins lecteur de l’abbé Prévost ? by Shelly Charles

“…This study offers a new hypothesis about the « fact » upon which Wilkie Collins’s Basil is supposed to be founded and reads this first sensational novel not as an alleged biography but as a meticulous rewriting of an 18th-century newspaper anecdote : « Histoire du désespéré », published by Prévost in his journal Le Pour et contre. …”
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Psychologist. Pedagogue. Person. On the Anniversary of Tatiana Germanovna Goryacheva by E.O. Sedova

“…The article describes the milestones of her biography and marks out the main scientific interests, among them: psychology of abnormal development, neuropsychological correction, child psychosomatics. …”
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الصوتیات والمرئیات المتاحة عبر المواقع الاسلامیة : دراسة کمیة ونوعیة by د. فاطمة ابراهیم خمیس

“…This study deals with audiovisual files available on Islamic web sites, And What it involves of Recitations Of The Quran , The Prophet's Biography, Hadith, Fatawa, Fiqh ,Sunna, Anasheed And Prayers , speeches and lessons for scholars and, Sheikhs and preachers. …”
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Inside Paul Auster’s Crypt: Autobiography and Spectrality in Ghosts by Giorgos GIANNAKOPOULOS

“…Ghosts, the second novel in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy, can be read as a fictionalized theoretical speculation on autobiography, one that problematizes such oppositions as the auto- and hetero- of biography, the self and the other, the writing of one’s life and the writing of one’s death. …”
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Los microrrelatos cómicos y picarescos en la novela barroca: Céspedes y Meneses, Castillo Solórzano y Castelblanco by Christine Marguet

“…Elements such as burlesque poems and farces as interludes, comical or picaresque elements incorporated in the (auto)biography of characters, are embbedded in a continuum of more serious tone, inherited from noble novelistic genres, even if the novel aims to entertain. …”
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Un diálogo difícil con los contemporaneístas by Eduardo González Calleja

“…Bartolomé Bennassar maintained a stormy relationship with contemporary Spanish history, where alternated editorial successes such as his Historia de los españoles, failures such as Le défi espagnol and controversies such as those raised by his biography of Franco and his essay on the Civil War. …”
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Recordando o rei David: vivência coral e criatividade musical na Europa pós-carolíngia by Manuel Pedro Ferreira

“…This paper explores the presence of King David in the daily life and imaginary world of Latin medieval clergy, focusing on the Psaltery and those musical items (antiphons, sequences, tropes) newly inspired in David's biography as recorded in the Old Testament. Although referring both to pre-Carolingian mentality and to 16th-century humanism as mirrored in contemporary polyphony, it takes as its main object the liturgical repertory in existence around the 11th century. …”
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Introduction and Critique of the Philosophy of Eshragh by Zohreh Saeidi

“…In this book, the author, after propounding development ground of the logical – illuminated philosophy of Eshragh, focusing on biography, compilations and philosophical method. Then he debates Suhrvardi’s critique to Masha’s philosophy and afterwards indicates two realms of the ontology and epistemology in wisdom of Eshragh. …”
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Unpublished calendars of 1853-1854 by Laurynas Ivinskis by Danutė Labanauskienė

“…New details of L. Ivinskis' biography are disclosed. All didactic stories and other articles that were banned in 1853-1854 survived in Ivinskis' manuscripts and were published in later editions of the calendars. …”
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The gospel contra Nietzsche: a South African literary critique of Wille zur Macht by F. Hale

“…The present article explores how Joseph Doke, a scholarly, transplanted Englishman who served as a Baptist pastor in Johannesburg and elsewhere and wrote the first biography of Gandhi, used fiction to criticise Nietzsche early in the twentieth century. …”
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The beginning of image development by the society in the interpretation of A.S. Pushkin's works during his lifetime by D.V. Tumanov

“…The genesis of the mythologization of the biography and creative heritage of A.S. Pushkin has been discussed. …”
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Tobiáš Antonín Seeman a jeho kalendářové zápisy z let 1726–1747 by Jiří Kubeš, Vítězslav Prchal

“…Finally, the article brings a short biography of Tobias Anton Seeman who was serving to his above mentioned masters for long 60 years. …”
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Autour du musée Albert-Kahn. Exposer à partir d’une collection de films. Un essai by Gilles Baud-Berthier

“…First, the life of Albert Kahn (1860-1940), the man to which a museum is dedicated in France, is questionned, the focus in the biography of this self-made banker and pacifist being put on the intellectual influences that might have shaped his vision of the world and of his time. …”
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Variations on the Themes of Netochka Nezvanova by Dagnė Beržaitė

“…The article suggests the idea that incorporating a literary text into the context of a writer’s biography is one way of ‘completing the incomplete’, while at the same time expanding the possibilities of interpreting classic works. …”
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Bergson, précurseur des mobilités académiques contemporaines ? by Fred Dervin

“…The corpus use is based on articles from the New York Times and the Times as well as letters written by Bergson and a recent biography of the scholar. The main issue tackled in the paper is: can Bergson be considered as a forerunner of the contemporary hypermobile scholar?…”
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Ross Macdonald, Redivivus? by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Ross Macdonald, the author of eighteen Lew Archer novels in the 1950s through the 1970s, seems to be undergoing a revival of interest. After a definitive biography appeared in 1999, the Library of America, a sure benchmark of literary recognition, released in 2015 the first of three volumes devoted to his fiction; the same year saw the publication of his letters to and from Eudora Welty; and in 2016 Fantagraphics Books issued Macdonald’s marathon interviews with Paul Nelson. …”
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Todos estábamos a la espera de Álvaro Cepeda Samudio edición a cargo de Jacques Gilard by Manuel Guillermo Ortega

“…Introduction, with an intellectual biography of Cepeda Samudio, who lives between the media, the narrative and the cinema, 2. …”
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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…In this sense, we propose a brief intellectual biography of an American anthropologist born in 1938 who did fieldwork in Venezuela, taught in the United States, England and Scotland, weaved interdisciplinary dialogues between philosophy, linguistics and anthropology and stimulated exchanges between ethnology carried out in England, France, Scandinavia and Brazil. …”
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