The biographer and the subject : a study on biographical distance /

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...

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Tác giả chính: Tekcan, Rana
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2010]
Loạt:Studies in English literatures ; volume 15.
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  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Eating and Drinking with the Subject: Johnson's Life of Savage and Boswell's Life of Johnson; 2 Judas and The Frog Prince: Strachey's Eminent Victorians and Holroyd's Lytton Strachey; 3 Too Far For Comfort: Honan's Jane Austen, Her Life and Motion's Keats; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.