Types of Life-Writing in Suetonius’ Lives Of The Caesars and Illustrious Men

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-208
Author(s):  
Dennis Pausch
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Usual Approach ◽  
Literary Techniques ◽  
Biographical Tradition

This chapter highlights Suetonius’ biographical work, considering some of the literary techniques he employed in both his Lives of the Caesars and Lives of Illustrious Men, and comparing his approach with the biographical tradition in Rome. The usual approach of studying the surviving parts of Suetonius’ œuvre separately from one another and instead comparing them to the works of their predecessors within the respective generic tradition has often led to severe criticism. Many of the typical features of his biographies—such as their stylistic simplicity or thematic idiosyncrasy—can be explained, however, and thus perhaps even seen in a more favourable light, if his writings are studied in close connection with each other. Viewed in this light, it is not at all surprising that he continues his antiquarian approach with regard to both style and content. At the same time, he was fully aware of the tradition of biographical writing and thus adopted the qualities that seemed suitable to him in the Caesars as well as in Illustrious Men.

2. The journeying self

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Marcus
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Lake District ◽  
Road Trip ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Alfred Kazin ◽  
Self Development

There is a close connection between the rise of autobiography in the late 18th and early 19th century and the growing fascination with travel for its own sake, or for the sake of self-development. ‘The journeying self’ explains that with the rise of European Romanticism, Rousseau’s celebration of walking, Goethe’s Italian Journey, his fiction of Wilhelm Meister’s Wanderjahre, and his autobiography, and Wordsworth ‘wandering’ in the Lake District initiate a pattern of links between life-writing and travel, which continued through the American ‘road trip’ and more recent ‘urban walking’ and the literature of landscape. The autobiographical writings of Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, and Alfred Kazin are discussed.

Adding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German Biography

Mapping Lives ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Paulin
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
High Significance ◽  
Belles Lettres ◽  
Biographical Tradition

This chapter discusses the nature of German biographical tradition, which provides a glimpse into the erudition of biographies in German. German biographical tradition has always been seen as part of historiography, so that its development belongs rather to Wissenschaftsgeschicte than to belles-lettres. Furthermore, biographies within the German context function not just as a record of great names but as a hierarchy of cultural models, canonical literary figures, and representative individuals. As a determiner of national moral values, biography does more than merely memorialize. The biographical tradition of Germany tends to look at representative individuals and biographies as testaments and tangible representatives of the total forces – intellectual, moral, historical – of an age or culture. Seen in these terms, it is a product of national liberalism. The function of German biographical tradition is to annex the lives of the great for the overarching political and cultural ends, hence, biographies tended to be huge, philological, and supremely wissenschaftlich. This high significance of the function of biographies made such life-writing an endeavour inappropriate for the faint-hearted, thus limiting it to the aristocrats of the minds. This contributed to the end of German biographies, as narratives of lives were predominantly accounts of unapproachable geniuses.

Arabic Biography

2020 ◽  
pp. 446-459
Author(s):  
Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
Keyword(s):  
Initial Period ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Biographical Tradition

This chapter examines the Arabic biographical tradition. The genre of biographical writing is a celebrated, multifaceted, and widely practised field of Arabic literature. Basic forms of biographical compilation can be shown from the first century of Islam (seventh century), initially orally transmitted and later in writing. The Arabic biographical tradition was mainly developed from within Islam, to which it owes its noticeable character. It probably originated from the earnest aspiration of generations following the initial period to preserve knowledge about the central figures of that era. For that reason, biographical transmission, initially, was a highly religion-orientated discipline. Nevertheless, or perhaps even due to this stimulus, there developed a huge field of different biographical genres and specialized life-writing.

Introduction

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-544
Author(s):  
W. Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Nucleic Acid ◽  
Gene Mapping ◽  
Molecular Genetics ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Gene Activity ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Simple Systems

In comparison to many other fields of ultrastructural research in Cell Biology, the successful exploration of genes and gene activity with the electron microscope in higher organisms is a late conquest. Nucleic acid molecules of Prokaryotes could be successfully visualized already since the early sixties, thanks to the Kleinschmidt spreading technique - and much basic information was obtained concerning the shape, length, molecular weight of viral, mitochondrial and chloroplast nucleic acid. Later, additonal methods revealed denaturation profiles, distinction between single and double strandedness and the use of heteroduplexes-led to gene mapping of relatively simple systems carried out in close connection with other methods of molecular genetics.

The Relationship between Seeker and Spiritual Guide as portrayed in contemporary Western Sufi Autobiographies

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-332
Author(s):  
Kate Zebiri
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

This article aims to explore the Shaykh-mur?d (disciple) or teacher-pupil relationship as portrayed in Western Sufi life writing in recent decades, observing elements of continuity and discontinuity with classical Sufism. Additionally, it traces the influence on the texts of certain developments in religiosity in contemporary Western societies, especially New Age understandings of religious authority. Studying these works will provide an insight into the diversity of expressions of contemporary Sufism, while shedding light on a phenomenon which seems to fly in the face of contemporary social and religious trends which deemphasize external authority and promote the authority of the self or individual autonomy.

Proses dan Teknik Supervisi

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainay Lizana ◽  
Hade Afriansyah
Keyword(s):  
Information Collection ◽  
Implementation Evaluation ◽  
Supervision Process ◽  
Planning Implementation ◽  
Literary Techniques

This article describes the supervision techniques and processes. Supervision is a process, which is a series of activities that are organized and orderly and related to one another and directed to a purpose. Broadly, the activities in the supervision process can be divided into planning, implementation, evaluation, and follow-up. Information collection techniques using literary techniques.

ПОЕТИЧНА МОВОТВОРЧІСТЬ ЯК ВІДОБРАЖЕННЯ КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНОЇ КАРТИНИ СВІТУ

2018 ◽  
pp. 166-174
Author(s):  
М. В. Дзисюк
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Space ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Filling Ability ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
Space Saving ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Literary Techniques ◽  
Linguistic Process

Definitions of concept and sphere of the concept are widely used in different aspects of modern linguistics. There is no single understanding of these notions and universal methodology of research has not been invented by linguists yet. This predetermines topicality of the article. The aim of our research is analysis, generalization, and systematization of different approaches to the interpretation of the notion ‘concept’ that exist in modern linguistics. It results in the following tasks: analysis of existing definitions of concept and its division into certain ranges and defining classification features. Modern linguists raise the questions of the conceptual and linguistic image of the world, the role of a human factor in its formation and interaction as in a linguistic process more frequently and it is defined as a fact in today’s linguistic scientific literature. The problem of individual language formation, poetic one in particular gains important meaning in this context. Ukrainian linguists use the notion of ‘concept’ for a long time now although they adhere to different views on its definition. Researches of the question define two major approaches in the analysis of the notion ‘concept’ that is linguistic-cognitive and linguistic-cultural. We can claim that words-concepts are agents between material reality and the ideal world that is synthesized in poetry, carriers of sense since with their help the versatility of the real world correlates with eternal spiritual values. Therefore, main features of the notion ‘concept’ in which objectively-cognitive and subjectively-creative features are combines are as follow sensual authenticity, time-spatial features, mediation between material and spiritual, semantic filling, ability to polysemy. A word with a generally symbolic meaning that is implemented in a language process through literary techniques typical for poet’s idiotype is the main core of the concept. The concept in poetic language formation by modern Uman poets is semantically integral, fulfilled, able to penetrate into other concepts and absorb semantically narrower images saving unity and semantic independence, varying numerous interpretations that project it in a certain semantic space, saving potential of real reflection.

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