Bc. Michal Mikeš

Master's thesis

Truth and Design in Biography: Frederick Rolfe in Their Own Image

Truth and Design in Biography: Frederick Rolfe in Their Own Image
Abstract:
Tato práce se zabývá analýzou designu objevujícího se v biografiích Fredericka Rolfe, jmenovitě v dílech The Quest For Corvo A. J. A. Symonse, Corvo: Saint or Madman? Donalda Weekse a Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo Miriam Benkovitz. Práce se za pomoci základu postaveného na teorii biografie snaží objevit silné a slabé stránky přístupů jednotlivých autorů, které jsou dale rozebírány na vybraných částech …more
Abstract:
The present work analyses the design employed in Frederick Rolfe’s biographies, namely in A. J. A. Symons’s The Quest for Corvo, Donald Weeks’s Corvo: Saint or Madman? and Miriam Benkovitz’s Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo. It attempts to, while consulting appropriate theoretical background to biography, discover the strengths and weaknesses of the particular approaches that are subsequently discussed …more
 
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 18. 5. 2015

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 17. 6. 2015
  • Supervisor: doc. Michael Matthew Kaylor, PhD.
  • Reader: Ph.D. Stephen Paul Hardy

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Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Master programme / field:
Philology / English Language and Literature

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