1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387982603316

Titolo

Le dictionaire des huict langaiges [[electronic resource] ] : c'est à sçauoir grec, latin, flameng, françois, espagnol, italien, anglois & aleman: fort vtile & necessaire pour tous studieux & amateurs des lettres.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

A Paris, : Chez Guillaume Thibout, rue Alexandre l'Angloys, à l'enseigne du Paon., 1552

Edizione

[Nouuellement reueu & corrigé..]

Descrizione fisica

[219] p

Soggetti

Dictionaries, Polyglot

French language - Polyglot

Dutch language - Polyglot

English language - Polyglot

German language - Polyglot

Greek language - Polyglot

Italian language - Polyglot

Latin language - Polyglot

Spanish language - Polyglot

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese (ca. 1400-1600)

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Signatures: a-o⁸ (last leaf blank).

Imperfect: tightly bound, with loss of text.

Reproduction of original in: Newberry Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0101



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787983303321

Autore

Tekcan Rana

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2012

ISBN

3-8382-5995-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Studies in English literatures

Disciplina

808.06692

Soggetti

Biography as a literary form

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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