| Description |
1 online resource (165 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in English literatures,
1614-4651 ;
volume 15
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Studies in English literatures ; volume 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It createson papera 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form.
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Biography as a literary form. |
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Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Authors, English -- Biography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tekcan, Rana. Biographer and the subject 9783898219952 (OCoLC)761272589 |
| ISBN |
9783838259956 (electronic book) |
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3838259955 (electronic book) |
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9783898219952 |
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389821995X |
| Music No. |
EB00655088 Recorded Books |
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