The biographer and the subject : a study on biographical distance / / Rana Tekcan
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (178 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808.06692 |
| Soggetto topico: | Biography as a literary form |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The biographer and the subject |
| ISBN: | 3-8382-5995-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787983303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in English literatures.