The Biographer and the Subject: A Study on Biographical Distance: A Study on Biographical Distance. Second, Revised and Expanded Edition: Volume 2 - Brossura

Tekcan, Rana

Brossura

ISBN 10: 389821995X ISBN 13: 9783898219952

Casa editrice: Ibidem-Verlag Haunschild/Schoen gbr, 2015

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 largely dictated by the historical distance between them. There are three types of distance in biographical writing: First, where the biographer and the subject personally know one another; second, where the biographer is a near contemporary of the subject; and third, where biographer and subject are distinctly separated, in some cases by hundreds of years. Tekcan explores how some of the most accomplished biographers manage to "recreate life" across time and space. She closely examines Samuel Johnson's "Life of Mr. Richard Savage", James Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson", Lytton Strachey's "Eminent Victorians", Michael Holroyd's "Lytton Strachey", Park Honan's "Jane Austen", and Andrew Motion's "Keats".

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Informazioni sull'autore

Rana Tekcan is assistant professor of English at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She has published articles on Boswell, Austen, Shakespeare, and biography as a genre. She has published articles on Boswell, Austen, and Shakespeare, edited Turkish translations of Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, andJulius Caesar, and translated Vladimir Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense and Charles and Mary Lamb'sTales from Shakespeare into Turkish.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ibidem-Verlag Haunschild/Schoen gbr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 389821995X
• ISBN 13: 9783898219952
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 178
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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