02597nam 2200541 450 991046397760332120200520144314.03-8382-5995-5(CKB)2670000000547980(EBL)3029480(SSID)ssj0001466729(PQKBManifestationID)11831236(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001466729(PQKBWorkID)11487940(PQKB)10223961(MiAaPQ)EBC2056687(MiAaPQ)EBC5781817(Au-PeEL)EBL5781817(OCoLC)903956589(EXLCZ)99267000000054798020190619d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe biographer and the subject a study on biographical distance /Rana TekcanStuttgart :Ibidem Verlag,2012.1 online resource (178 p.)Studies in English literaturesDescription based upon print version of record.3-89821-995-X Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""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 larStudies in English literatures.Biography as a literary formElectronic books.Biography as a literary form.808.06692 Tekcan Rana953588MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463977603321The biographer and the subject2156146UNINA