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UNINA9910463977603321 |
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Autore |
Tekcan Rana |
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Titolo |
The biographer and the subject : a study on biographical distance / / Rana Tekcan |
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Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (178 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in English literatures |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biography as a literary form |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 lar |
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