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

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 ac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tekcan, Rana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem-Verlag, 2014.
Colección:Studies in English literatures ; Volume 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Eating and Drinking with the Subject: Johnsonâ€?s Life of Savage and Boswellâ€?s Life of Johnson""; ""2 Judas and The Frog Prince: Stracheyâ€?s Eminent Victorians and Holroydâ€?s Lytton Strachey""; ""3 Too Far For Comfort: Honanâ€?s Jane Austen, Her Life and Motionâ€?s Keats""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 
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