„Portret jednego człowieka”. Przyczynek do biografii Haliny Rząsowej (1924–1980), zakopiańskiej fotografki by Katarzyna Chrudzimska-Uhera

“…The article looks at the history of the Zakopane artistic circles in order to reconstruct in detail the biography of this underappreciated artist. The author uses information and photographic material from a private family archive deposited in the Antoni Rząsa Gallery in Zakopane. …”
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Finding oneself? Contemplating on paintings with a religious theme in clinical pastoral care by F. Herm, V. Kessler, E. Kloppers

“…Aspects of aesthetics, biography, religion, and emotion are also observed. …”
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Gloriana de Britten et le rêve de l’opéra anglais by Gilles Couderc

“…Britten’s insistence on composing such an opera based on the tragic love story between the first Queen Elizabeth and Essex, depicted in Lytton Strachey’s dramatic biography, raises several questions. Why should Britten, the controversial composer of several controversial works, curry royal patronage? …”
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“I Put Myself Back in the Narrative”: Hamilton as Founders Fanfiction by Jeremy Brett

“…Hamilton represents a highly visible example of what might be called “Founders fanfiction”; although the musical is rooted deeply in historical fact, primarily via Ron Chernow’s magisterial biography of Hamilton, nonetheless, as a narrative the production is a piece of popular wish-fulfilment. …”
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Kazan University in the early 1870s as seen by a Kievan Master of Science: Some comments on the Master's thesis defense by I.V. Luchitsky by S.I. Luchitskaya

“…The publication of the handwritten sources is essential for several reasons: firstly, they bring to light some new facts about the historian’s biography; secondly, they give an idea of the thesis defense procedure in the post-reform Russia; thirdly, they describe the daily life of the Kazan University in the early 1870s, thus being a valuable source for historians. …”
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About myths and true story of Muslims of Ust-Ishim district of Omsk region (Islam through the prism of local history) by A. P. Yarkov

“…The author comes to the conclusion that the legend of the birth of the Ashevan yurts in 1226 bears little resemblance to the true «biography» of the village. The described case testifies that in the future, the creation of scientifically grounded «Histories of Siberian villages» is an urgent task for scientists and local historians…”
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Papa’s Baby, Mama’s Maybe: Reading the Black Paternal Palimpsest and White Maternal Present Absence in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand by Yolanda M. Manora

“…In his 2006 award winning monograph In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line, George Hutchinson shed new light not only on the biographical facts of Nella Larsen’s life as a biracial individual coming of age during an “era when ‘race’ trumped” all relationships, even those of family, but also on the effects these experiences had on her psychologically, especially on her ability to forge a relational life. …”
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Historiography of life and creative work of Ya.N. Baiburtly, a notable Crimean Tatar man of letters and educator by Tair Kirimov

“…Baiburtly helped to more clearly outline his creative personality, to determine the prospects for the aspectual study of the biography of the figure as a writer and playwright, literary translator, public figure and educator of the designated period.…”
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An unwilling officer: the engineer Mikhail Vasilyevich Lebedev in the era of social cataclysms by D. I. Petin

“…In this article, through the prism of the anthropological approach and the theory of social adaptation, the biography of the representative of the Russian technical intelligentsia Mikhail Vasilyevich Lebedev is analyzed. …”
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Salience and Blindness: A Haptic Hike on Gins Mountain by Marie-Dominique Garnier

“…This paper attempts to follow an improbable ridge line between architecture, geography and linguistics, between the optic and haptic ends of the concept of salience, through a reading of Helen Keller Or Arakawa, Madeline Gins’s 1994 essay-cum-joint-biography partly devoted to “salience” approached through the blind figure of Helen Keller (1880-1968). …”
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Drawing on social approval as a linguistic strategy: A discourse semantic analysis of judgement evaluation in suspected online romance scammer dating profiles by Lee Kam-Fong, Chan Mei Yuit, Ali Afida Mohamad

“…This study examined the first stage in the online scam strategy, that is, the putting up of a dating profile (user biography) on online dating service websites. The analysis employs the judgement evaluation framework of appraisal theory to examine the extent to which scammer profiles differ from a set of general user profiles in terms of their use of social approval as a linguistic strategy to attract a more compliant victim type. …”
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Fortunatov as a researcher of the Carolingian Renaissance by T.N. Ivanova, N.N. Ageeva

“…The relevant facts of his biography have been reconstructed. The paper focuses on his research on the Carolingian Renaissance. …”
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Langston Hughes chez Pierre Seghers : récit d’un engagement poétique by Annick Ettlin

“…In Seghers’s view, his biography and his work can be seen as a model poetic gesture: both active and likely to solicit action.…”
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Nogai the Khanmaker: A Historiographical Problem by Wilson J.

“…Research results and novelty: Much of the basis for the modern idea of Nogai the Khanmaker owes to Veselovskij’s 1922 biography of Nogai, built upon by the influential histories on the Golden Horde by Vernadsky and Spuler. …”
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Sylvia Plath’s October 1962 Poems: “Things Are Resolving” by Gary LEISING

“…Independence—personal and financial—and a view of better things to come suffuse many of the letters of this period while Ariel—especially as edited by Ted Hughes—appears darker, as does the ultimate and tragic trajectory of Plath’s biography. Yet reading these two months’ letters along with their poems and thinking about the order Plath left the Ariel manuscript in, we may see a tension between her writing and her life: While her life goes toward its dark close, her poems point toward rebirth and rejuvenation, as do some of her letters. …”
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Saillance et cécité : parcours haptique sur le Mont Gins by Marie-Dominique Garnier

“…This paper attempts to follow an improbable ridge line between architecture, geography and linguistics, between the optic and haptic ends of the concept of salience, through a reading of Helen Keller Or Arakawa, Madeline Gins’s 1994 essay-cum-joint-biography partly devoted to “salience” approached through the blind figure of Helen Keller (1880-1968). …”
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(Auto)pathography, Photography, Trauma in Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project by Angeliki TSETI

“…Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project (2008) consists in a disguised autobiography and a fictional biography, and constitutes an eloquent example of Leigh Gilmore’s suggestion that life-writing trauma is often performed by an individual narrating their life story through the experience of others. …”
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Restoring Medieval Manuscripts in the Eighteenth-Century: Completing or Perfecting? by Delphine Demelas

“…The codex contains a peculiar version of La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin, an epic biography of the French constable written near the end of the fourteenth century. …”
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The Belgrade opus of architect Aleksandar Stjepanović: Residential architecture (1961-1992) by Banković Angelina

“…The paper was written based on the results of previous research, technical documentation preserved in protection institutions, archives of city municipalities, and in the documentation of the architect himself, on the basis of conversations with him, as well as field research. A short biography of the architect is given, followed by a summation of the most significant features of residential construction during the time of his activity. …”
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The Secret Life of Secret Agents: Alan Bennett and John Schlesinger’s An Englishman Abroad (1983) and A Question of Attribution (1991) by Nicole Cloarec

“…While displaying a sustained concern for “national biography”, both films prove early examples of biopics conceived as self-reflexive and intermedial allegories. …”
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