In Chinese terms, the book changed the format of histories from biographical style ( 紀傳體 ) to chronological style ( 編年體 ), which is better suited for analysis and criticism.

Another area of focus in the study of hadith is biographical analysis (‘ ilm al-rijāl, lit.

" Nobel century: a biographical analysis of physics laureates ".

Both types of courses tend to emphasize a balance among the acquisition of musical repertory ( often emphasized through listening examinations ), study and analysis of these works, biographical and cultural details of music and musicians, and writing about music, perhaps through music criticism.

As a thorough researcher, he published many biographical books still used as reference, along with compilations and analysis of Dominican folk poets.

Syme blended biographical investigation, historical narrative and interpretation, and literary analysis to produce what may be the single most thorough study of a major historian ever published.

* Jehan Titelouze: a short biographical sketch and analysis of Hymnes

Brooks was the central figure of New Criticism, a movement that emphasized structural and textual analysis — close reading — over historical or biographical analysis.

A masterpiece of prose as well as a model of biographical narrative and social analysis it is mainly the story of the terrible last years of persecution and torment before the poet husband Osip was murdered.

It provides the biographical context of every composition along with musical analysis or commentary.

* Imogen Holst: A Life in Music edited by Christopher Grogan ( The Boydell Press 2007 ) includes her diary of her years working with Benjamin Britten, a biographical essay by Rosamund Strode and an analysis of her music by Christopher Tinker.

In 1920, the Chilean historian published a comprehensive study of Magellan containing an impressive amount of biographical information, a detailed analysis of the beginning and development of the voyage of circumnavigation, and a remarkable amount of information on the crews of the Armada de Molucca.

His books, mostly biographical, were based on history, but often left out references, a bibliography or even analysis of historical events.

The Baum Bugle winter 1987 issue contains biographical and bibliographical information about Snow as well as critical analysis of his horror output.

* Liner notes ( in English ) for the recording of Andrzej Trzaskowski's Polish Jazz Quintet ( includes a biographical sketch and an analysis of Trzaskowski's jazz compositions )

Their interest remains chiefly biographical, for they throw some light on the utter despair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early summer of 1900.

ISBN 0-7316-8792-2 ( biographical rather than musicological in nature ; is wholly devoid of staff-notation extracts ; but corrects some errors found in Z. K. Pyne and elsewhere ).

Apart from the several theological discourses, Gregory was also one of the most important early Christian men of letters, a very accomplished orator, perhaps one of the greatest of his time, and also a very prolific poet, writing several poems with theological and moral matter and some with biographical content, about himself and about his friends ( one short poem, " Eis ta Emmetra ", actually lays down some rules for the composition of poetry ).

Hogue was in a position to take advantage of it, but it was only in 2003 that he accepted that some of his earlier biographical material had in fact been apocryphal.

* Solo ( 2006, DC Comics ), the eleventh issue of this DC Comics artist anthology series features various stories written and illustrated by Aragonés, some biographical, and a Batman story written by Mark Evanier.

Although the commentaries no doubt record much factual information about Virgil, some of their evidence can be shown to rely on inferences made from his poetry and allegorizing ; thus, Virgil's biographical tradition remains problematic.

He assessed some of Keynes biographical and editorial work as among the best he'd ever seen.

* A web page about Bentley, with some clerihews and some biographical information on Bentley himself

Although a number of the biographical particulars of the movie are Hollywood-ized fiction ( omitting the fact that Cohan divorced and remarried, for example, and taking some liberties with the chronology of Cohan's life ), care was taken to make the sets, costumes and dance steps match the original stage presentations.

Scholars both ancient and modern have turned to Pindar's own workhis victory odes in particularas a source of biographical information: some of the poems touch on historic events and can be accurately dated.

However, the pendulum of intellectual fashion has begun to change direction again, and cautious use of the poems for some biographical purposes is considered acceptable once more.

Writer Nick Warburton intertwined some of Aubrey's biographical sketches with the story of the turbulent friendship between Aubrey and Anthony Wood.

The French culture might have been already blended in from other races and ethnicities, in cases of some biographical research on the possibility of African ancestry on a small number of famous French citizens.

* The Traverse region, historical and descriptive, with illustrations of scenery and portraits and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers .. Chicago: H. R. Page & Co., 1884. pp. 313 +

At one point the interviewer asks the question: " So some of these references like babies in bathtubs are not biographical?

They did come up with some specific criticisms, including typographic unattractiveness ( the type is too small and hard to read ); non-use of capital letters ( only " God " was capitalized ; the goal was to save space ); excessive use of citations, giving misspellings as legitimate variants, dropping too many obsolete words, the lack of usage labels, and deliberate omission of biographical and geographical entries.

According to biographical research of Hugh Noel Williams, Charles had not arrived at The Hague until the middle of September 1648 — seven months before the child's birth ( but he met Lucy for the first time nine months before ) — and some unfounded voices whispered that Lucy Walter had in the summer of 1648 been mistress of Colonel Robert Sidney, a younger son of the Earl of Leicester.

* Introduction to the Malleus Maleficarum ( 1928 edition ) by Montague Summers, including some biographical facts and sources about Sprenger

He is credited in some biographical sketches with revolutionizing the railroad or machine industries with his devices.

Farrell appeared in the title role of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's 2004 biographical film Alexander, which, while receiving some favourable reviews internationally, was poorly received in the United States.

His official birthday was 14 May 1906, and this date is documented in some biographical accounts.

The author, whose true name and place of origin are probably concealed beneath the impenetrably enigmatic biographical tradition concerning " Lycophron ," probably used the name, and some of the literary substance, of Lycophron, not in emulation, but as an ironic reminiscence of the earlier writer, who had combined the practice of tragedy and the elucidation of comedy.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

The National Archives of Canada, in its biographical sketches of Canadian Prime Ministers, records show that on one occasion during the war, Trudeau and his friends drove their motorcycles wearing Prussian military uniforms, complete with pointed steel helmets.

* Frances Farmer: Though Farmer is the person perhaps best associated in the public mind with lobotomy due to its depiction in the fictionalized biographical film Frances, archival medical and other records have conclusively proven Farmer never underwent the procedure.

The film had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles and was a great success both critically and financially ; contemporary reviews cited it as the best biographical film made up to that time.

The Oraison, as its name betokened, stood midway between the sermon proper and what would nowadays be called a biographical sketch.

The biography in this article is an amalgam of old and new approachesit is naive in its reliance on the odes as biographical sources and it even includes a few clearly fanciful elements from ancient accounts.

With time, Aubrey's biographical researches went beyond mere assistance to Wood and became a project in its own right.

With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885.

History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, with illustration and biographical sketches of its pioneers and most prominent men.

History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men.

A biographical, feature-length documentary titled Chasing Sound: Les Paul at 90 made its world première on May 9, 2007, at the Downer Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The main objective of Motown's relocation was to branch out into the motion picture industry, and Motown Productions got its start in film by turning out two hit vehicles for Diana Ross: the Billie Holiday biographical film Lady Sings the Blues ( 1972 ), and Mahogany ( 1975 ).

The biographical film of 1947, The Fabulous Dorseys describes sketchy details of how the brothers got their start from-the-bottom-up into the jazz era of one-nighters, the early days of radio in its infancy stages, and the onward march when both brothers ended up with Paul Whiteman before 1935 when The Dorsey Brothers ' Orchestra split into two.

Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical film about jazz singer Billie Holiday loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from one of Holiday's most popular songs.

* The Saratogian, " Early History of Waterford ", Our county and its people: A descriptive and biographical record of Saratoga County, New York.

In addition to the extraordinary amount of biographical material, extensively researched, the Acta Sanctorum broke new ground in its use of historical criticism.

* Charles David Smith and Richard James Howe: The Welte-Mignon, its music and musicians ; complete catalogue of Welte-Mignon reproducing piano recordings 1905 – 1932, historical overview of companies and individuals, biographical essays on the recording artists and composers.

Bowman promptly imitated this by putting statistics on its own cards where it had previously only had biographical information.

This satire on the biographical novel is one of the most innovative and influential novels in English, and its foregrounding of the authorial voice and playful refusal to accept a conventional linear timeframe mark it out as a precursor of such modernist novelists as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.

The Intentional Fallacy, according to Wimsatt, derives from “ confusion between the poem and its origins ” ( Verbal Icon 21 ) – essentially, it occurs when a critic puts too much emphasis on personal, biographical, or what he calls “ external ” information when analyzing a work ( they note that this is essentially the same as the “ Genetic fallacy ” in philosophical studies ; 21 ).

In addition to arguing against historical, biographical, and didactic readings of a poem, Brooks believed that a poem should not be criticized on the basis of its effect on the reader.

A biographical musical, Laughter in the Rain, produced by Bill Kenwright and Laurie Mansfield, starring Wayne Smith as Sedaka, had its world premiere at the Churchill Theatre, in the London borough of Bromley, on 4 March 2010.

His first task was to discharge the obligations he owed his benefactor, by contributing to the support of his widow and her son, and by completing the fourth volume of Desault's Journal de Chirurgie to which he added a biographical memoir of its author.