UID:
almafu_9959235637902883
Format:
1 online resource (178 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8382-5995-5
Series Statement:
Studies in English literatures
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-89821-995-X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
