Językowy obraz świata w tekstach Jana Jakuba Rousseau. „Wyznania” jako narracyjne konstruowanie tożsamości by Anna Wasilewska

“…I recommend reading Rousseau’ s biography again in order to see the intersection of history and fictitious reality, to reconstruct the linguistic strategy of giving meaning by J.J. …”
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Intérpretes e notáveis da literatura e da cultura popular do Maranhão by Igor Gastal Grill, Eliana Tavares dos Reis

“…We analyzed Academic Profiles and Popular Culture Profiles taking into consideration: (i) the social and political position of the agents (biographers and biographiers), defined by the resources on which their “reputation” and their inscriptions are based on cultural and political struggles; (ii) the structuring strategies of the works, observing the selection and hierarchization of the cases, available space, assigned classifications, among others; (iii) and the contents, adjectives, definitions, finally, the representations explained in the pre-texts and laudatory texts. …”
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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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Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt by Russ Castronovo

“…The result is that the utopian longings associated with spiritualism are reconciled with the biography of the “solid citizen,” which, incidentally, was the working title for Babbitt.…”
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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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«It seems that we grow younger generation “oblivious of gens”…» by A. M. Plekhanov

“…Alexander Mikhailovich Plekhanov is a Ph.D in history, professor, full member of the International Informatization Academy, veteran of the KGB of the USSR, retired colonel, author of several monographs devoted to the biography of F. E. Dzerzhinsky, the history of Russian secret services, defense and protection of the state border and the history of Cossacks. …”
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«Even though Volunteer fighters made their mistakes and sins, only those who do nothing make no mistakes». Memoirs of Volunteer Army officers in 1918–1920 left by Major General Kon... by R. G. Gagkuev, F. A. Gushchin

“…An analysis of this historical document has been made and the first full-scale biography of the memoirist has been introduced. The memoirs written by Kelner in 1930 provide a detailed description of the best known «colored» (for their uniforms) regiments of the Volunteer Army: Drozdovites, Markovites, Kornilovites and Alekseevites. …”
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A data de nascimento de Afonso I by Abel Estefânio

“…No wonder that this article arise in the margins of professional historiography, despite having been the recent publication of the biography of D. Afonso Henriques, who came to renew the interest in the subject. …”
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La vie, la mort et la résurrection des objets archéologiques by Anne-Lise Guigues, Zahra Hashemi

“…The Luristan bronzes provide an opportunity to reflect on the way in which the biography of objects can be written in the case of archaeological artefacts, as well as on the various definitions of the life of an object, from its manufacture to its burial, then from its rediscovery to its exhibition. …”
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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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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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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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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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«Siberian Satrap» M. M. Lashevich and his death in Harbin by M. V. Krotova

“…The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the final period of Lashevich’s life in the context of the Soviet presence in China, with emphasis placed on the perception of Lashevich’s personality by Russian emigration in Manchuria, the circumstances of his death and posthumous biography using an anthropological approach and the biographical method. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…The study of unpublished family archives from the architect’s wife, the painter Jane de Montchenu (1857-1924) allows the writing of a sensitive biography, more able to grasp the exuberance of an idealistic architectural signature. …”
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Devotion to Clinical Psychology. To the anniversary of Irina Fedorovna Roshchina by N.V. Zvereva

“…The article highlights the main milestones in her biography and identifies her main areas of scientific interest, including: the study of normal and pathological aging, the methodology and diagnostic tools of clinical psychology, the theoretical and methodological issues of medical (clinical) psychology, as well as issues related to the training and education of young professionals and the preservation of the traditions of the Moscow School of Clinical Psychology. …”
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Des œuvres en morceaux et des trous sur les murs. La difficulté d’écrire la vie des œuvres du Pérugin au XIXe siècle by Éloïse Dumas

“…This upheaval in the life of the objects had a profound effect on their biography, which historians wrote throughout the century, reuniting the dismembered altarpieces in books.…”
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«The history cannot be rewritten, it can be added...» by Yu. Z. Kantor

“…Petersburg historian, doctor of historical sciences, museologist and journalist, well-known expert on the history of international relations on the eve and during the Second World War, the author of the most complete and well-known biography of the red marshal M. N. Tukhachevsky. The interview was given by Yu. …”
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Astronomer and Surveyor Anton Shahin (1799–1842) by Libertas Klimka

“… The paper presents a new data on the biography of eminent astronomer and land surveyor of Vilnius and Kharkiv universities Anton Szahin (1799– 1842). …”
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