Biography genre books
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A biography, commonly known as a bio, is defined as a detailed description of a person’s life. Rather than dealing with the basic facts of the subject’s life like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person’s experience with life events, presenting a subject’s life story, with highlights of various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may even include an analysis of the subject’s personality.
Biography’s are usually non-fiction in nature but fiction can sometimes be used to portray the subject’s life. One form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing that deals with in-depth research.
At first, biographical writings were merely a subsection of history focusing on a particular individual of historical importance. The independent genre of biography began emerging in the 18th century reaching its contemporary form at the turn of the 20th century. Biographical research as defined by Miller is a research method of collecting and analyzing a person’s whole life, o
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Biography genre
Definition and overview
Definition and Overview
A biography is a written or spoken account of someone’s life. It usually includes information such as their birth date, place of birth, family members, education, career, achievements, and death (if applicable). Biographies are often used to introduce people who have made significant contributions in various fields like politics, literature, science, sports, entertainment, etc. They provide insight into the personality, motivations, and experiences of the subject matter. The genre has been around for centuries, with some of the earliest known examples being from ancient Greece and Rome. In modern times, biographies are widely available in various forms including books, movies, television shows, and online articles.
History and development
The biography genre has its roots in ancient Greece, where writers such as Plutarch wrote biographies of famous individuals. However, it wasn’t until the 18th century that the modern form of the biography began to take shape, with writers like James Boswell creating detailed acc
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Document Type : Original Article
Author
Persian litetuar,islamic azad urmia university
10.22055/jrp.2021.32728.1019
Abstract
A biography is a literary genre with a fictional essence which recounts the story of a person's life. Due to its distinct features, biography has attained literary, historical, and sociological prominence and function. The popularity and development of the genre, together with its diverse categories, are the culmination of the process of the recognition of a national and individual identity during the Iranian constitutionalism. The present study endeavours to explore analytically the background and development of the diverse categories of the genre as well as their structural and literary similarities, dissimilarities, and confluence. Meanwhile, the function of the biography, the biographer's literary and scholarly status, biographer's privacy, along with the prevailing impediments and obstacles, are critically investigated. A part of this study is allotted to the analysis of the biographies and autobiographies of Dr. Abdolhossein Zarkoub, Kamiar
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