TY  - GEN
T1  - The biographer and the subject : a study on biographical distance
T2  - Studies in English literatures ;
A1  - Tekcan, Rana
LA  - English
PP  - Stuttgart
PB  - Ibidem-Verlag
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn874920477
AB  - A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates—on paper—a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in the creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is formed by accurate historical facts. But its soul lies elsewhere. Since the concern is life, something more is needed: Nothing dry, cold or dead, but a vibrant impression of life that is left in the air after one turns over the last page. But how does a biographer do it? The way a biographer creates a subject is largely d.
OP  - 165
CN  - PR756.B56
SN  - 9783838259956
SN  - 3838259955
SN  - 9783898219952
SN  - 389821995X
KW  - Biography as a literary form.
KW  - Authors, English : Biography : History and criticism.
KW  - Biographies as Topic
KW  - Biographie (Genre littéraire)
KW  - biographies (literary genre)
KW  - biography (general genre)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Authors, English : Biography
KW  - Biography as a literary form
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -