| 1. | " It is these scholars who express the most
ambivalence about their biographical studies, describing biography, in
Nelson's case, as a "fictive genre" (204), and in
Al-Ali's case, citing the unresolved concern of many scholars about
the "dialectic between individual experience and historical
context" (156)."
| Source: | Dale, Stephen Frederic. "Auto/biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East" Biography 26.1 Jan. 1 2003: 140-145
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| 2. | " Seeking on the one hand to
relate basic biographical and historical information about the subject
under study (topics thus far include composers, instruments, genres, and
institutions) and to offer a review of the..."
| Source: | Onderdonk, Julian. "The Cambridge Companion to Debussy" Notes 61.1 Sept. 1 2004: 124-127
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| 3. | "... he leaves much of the more
prosaic markers of a life---family background, education, wives and
children, political/social activities and engagements, works--for more
thorough and more general historical and biographical works (his own
biography, Holger Drachmann, among them)."
| Source: | Isaacson, Lanae Hjortsvang. "Poul Bernth. Der var en sjael i Skagen: En doku-roman om Holger Drachmann og Skagen" World Literature Today 76 June 22 2002: 126-128
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| 4. | " The book also shows how
debates about biographical and historical methodology, which are so
important to professionals, have yet to have any significant impact on
public consciousness."
| Source: | Storey, Williams K. "Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research." Biography 25.4 Sept. 22 2002: 684-687
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| 5. | "
What appears to me most productive in these essays is the
authors' utilization in good New Historicist fashion of
biographical and historical details to explicate the texts they
consider."
| Source: | Ludington, Townsend. "Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture." Biography 25.4 Sept. 22 2002: 685-689
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| 6. | " In chapter four,
"History, Homosexuality, and Milton's Legacy," Hobson
insists on the need for historical rather than biographical or symbolic
readings of the Bard's Song to appreciate the extent to which the
bard..."
| Source: | Linkin, Harriet Kramer. "Blake and Homosexuality" Criticism 44.2 Mar. 22 2002: 212-218
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| 7. | "
After providing a brief biographical sketch of Peter Damian's
life and of his historical context, I shall explain how he understood
the cause, the effects, and the remedy for the sexual scandals in the
Church of his day."
| Source: | Anderson, C. Colt. "When magisterium becomes imperium: Peter Damian on the accountability of bishops for scandal" Theological Studies 65.4 Dec. 1 2004: 741-767
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| 8. | "
The conventions of classical narrative cinema also work to suppress
the marks of production in historical or biographical film by
suppressing the traces of research (Custen 128), thereby rendering
"seamless" the fit between the cinematic..."
| Source: | Dagle, Joan. "Cinema/history/feminism: intersecting discourses in Rosa Luxemburg" literature and psychology 49.4 Dec. 22 2004: 27-43
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| 9. | "... the power of the individual actor and biographical
narrative in the wake of social historical and post-structural assaults."
| Source: | Kivelson, Valerie A. "Ivan the Terrible: Profiles in Power" Canadian Journal of History 39.2 Aug. 1 2004: 343-346
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| 10. | " Establishing an overview of
manuscript verse transmission will require a good deal of historical and
biographical investigation in addition to paleography and analysis of
paper and bindings."
| Source: | May, Steven W. "The future of manuscript studies in early modern poetry" Shakespeare Studies 32 Jan. 1 2004: 56-63
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| 11. | " The themes of his poetry
range from the biographical to the cosmic, from the topical to the
universal, from the historical to the contemporary, from the
metaliterary to the metaphysical, and from the physical to the
religious."
| Source: | Naikar, Basavaraj. "Expectations" World Literature Today 74.1 Jan. 1 2000: 242
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| 12. | " Indeed+ two of the three essays
exclusively devoted to biographical matters--Peter Branscombe's
"Schubert and the Ungers: A Preliminary Study" and Rita
Steblin's "Schubert's Relationship with Women: An
Historical Account"--are eloquent examples that the documentary
wells have not quite run dry."
| Source: | MESSING, SCOTT. "Schubert Studies" Notes 56.3 Mar. 1 2000: 716
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| 13. | "
Biographical Note
Ronald Hutton is Professor of History in the Department of
Historical Studies, University of Bristol, UK, and the author of eight
books,..."
| Source: | Hutton, Ronald. "Paganism and Polemic: The Debate over the Origins of Modern Pagan Witchcraft" Folklore 111.1 Apr. 1 2000: 103
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| 14. | "
Yet employers, particularly in pre-selection, may not always
exploit such biographical data (biodata, defined by Asher (1972) as
`historical and verifiable' pieces of information about an
individual (p. 266)) to full advantage."
| Source: | Harvey-Cook, J. E.,Taffler, R. J. "Biodata in professional entry-level selection: Statistical scoring of common format applications" Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 73.1 Mar. 1 2000: 103
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| 15. | " This
view is unsupported by the historical and biographical record, which
makes it abundantly clear that Matisse, Picasso, and the other giants..."
| Source: | . "Letters from Readers" Commentary 109.4 Apr. 1 2000: 5
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| 16. | "... Islam Ansiklopedisi
[Encyclopaedia of Islam] (Ankara, 1993), Vol. V-1, pp.392-3.
(9.) Ibnulemin Mahmud Kemal Inal (1870-1957) was a prolific writer
of historical and biographical works."
| Source: | WASTI, SYED TANVIR. "A Note on Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasa" Middle Eastern Studies 36.1 Jan. 1 2000: 1
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| 17. | " Peabody slights
the biographical and historical context that might demonstrate how the
women of the Beat generation broadened, extended, or contradicted the
ideas..."
| Source: | Bonca, Cornel. "The Women Who Stayed Home From the Orgy" College Literature 27.1 Jan. 1 2000: 257
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| 18. | " While many items
have abstracts, Lane more often provides historical and biographical
background, definitions, and copious references to other entries,
reviews, related research, tributes, responses, and addresses."
| Source: | RUDNICK, TRACEY. "The Trombone: An Annotated Bibliography" Notes 56.4 June 1 2000: 967
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| 19. | "
Following recent Black feminist theory, [24] Petchesky argues for
"an ethic of women's bodily integrity that is communal and
extended rather than individualized and privatized," one that does
account for biographical and historical pressures."
| Source: | GOSLINGA-ROY, GILLIAN M. "BODY BOUNDARIES, FICTION OF THE FEMALE SELF: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE ON POWER, FEMINISM, AND THE REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES" Feminist Studies 26.1 Mar. 22 2000: 113
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| 20. | " A brief introduction sets forth the
author's thesis and the goals of the study, describes existing
scholarship, and gives a brief historical and biographical background to
1918."
| Source: | Haemig, Mary Jane. "Otto Dibelius: Ein Kirchenmann in der Zeit zwischen Monarchie und Diktatur" Church History 68.3 Sept. 1 1999: 704
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| 21. | " Artists' notion of their
"calling," analyzed by Kris & Kurz (1987) as a
historically recurring feature of artistic biographical narrative, calls
to mind the "inner drive" reported by Jeffri & Throsby
(1994) as the foremost criterion of professionalism according to US
visual artists."
| Source: | Menger, Pierre-Michel. "ARTISTIC LABOR MARKETS AND CAREERS" Annual Review of Sociology Jan. 1 1999: 541
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| 22. | " The first section, "Background and Premises,"
provides historical and biographical data on both Guenon and
Coomaraswamy, and places them within the conceptual development of
perennial philosophy."
| Source: | Giancola, Donna M. "The Only Tradition" Philosophy East and West 49.2 Apr. 1 1999: 218
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| 23. | "... of mortal men and into which the
trains of thought, of remembrance and anticipation, save whatever they
touch from the ruin of historical and biographical time."
| Source: | LAUTERBACH, ANN. "The Night Sky VII" American Poetry Review 28.1 Jan. 1 1999: 41
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| 24. | " What
better birthday present could we receive than a new book by Ernest
Hemingway, and a new set of literary, critical, historical,
biographical, and textual problems?"
| Source: | . "FIRST PERSPECTIVES ON TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT" Hemingway Review 19.1 Sept. 22 1999: 19
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| 25. | "... literary, critical, historical, biographical, and textual
problems it poses.
"The True at First Light Manuscripts"
Stephen Plotkin and John Delaney."
| Source: | . "ABSTRACTS" Hemingway Review 19.1 Sept. 22 1999: 1
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