The biographer and the subject : a study on biographical distance

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

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 ac...

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Main Author: Tekcan, Rana (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem-Verlag, 2014.
Series:Studies in English literatures ; Volume 15.
Subjects:
Biography as a literary form.
Authors, English > Biography > History and criticism.
Biography.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
Authors, English > Biography
Biography as a literary form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Eating and Drinking with the Subject: Johnsonâ€?s Life of Savage and Boswellâ€?s Life of Johnson""; ""2 Judas and The Frog Prince: Stracheyâ€?s Eminent Victorians and Holroydâ€?s Lytton Strachey""; ""3 Too Far For Comfort: Honanâ€?s Jane Austen, Her Life and Motionâ€?s Keats""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

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