Legacy of the progressive personalities of our past: biography as an object of the historiographical research Cover Image

Odkazy pokrokových osobností naší minulosti: biografie jako předmět historického výzkumu
Legacy of the progressive personalities of our past: biography as an object of the historiographical research

Author(s): Václav Sixta
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Literary Texts
Published by: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Keywords: biography; theory of biography; Melantrich; conceptual history; state socialism.

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the issue of research of the genre of biography in historiographical perspective. The key material is the book series „Legacy of the progressive personalities of our „past”, which was published from the year 1961 to the year 1991 in Czechoslovakia. The goal of the text is to present the book series itself, but it mainly aims to demonstrate the opportunities and limits of the historiographical research of the genre of biography.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 64-87
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Czech