Author: Kramer, Martin ; editor:
Title: Middle Eastern Lives : The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative
Description: Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, (1991). orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. viii,167 pp, 22x14cm,. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 8 papers. Includes: Bernard Lewis "First-Person Narrative in the Middle East"; D.F. Eickelman "Traditional Islamic Learning & Ideas of the Person in the 20th Century"; M. Zonis "Autobiography & Biography in the Middle East: A Plea for Psychopolitical Studies"; Elie Kedourie "Biography & Psychohistory"; V.D. Volkan & N. Itzkowitz "A Response to Critics of a Psychobiography"; S. Teveth "History versus Biography"; U. Dann "The Biographical Element in Political History"; M. Kramer "A Sampler of Biography & Self-Narrative

Keywords: Arabic Philology, Historiography, Arabic Literature, Psychohistory, Arabic Historical, Autobiography, Psychobiography, Psychology History, Middle East, Literary Criticism