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"In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative, and notoriously opposed to allowing intruders on their turf. They make bonfires of their papers...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donaldson, Scott, 1928-2020 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.
Series:Penn State series in the history of the book.
Subjects:
Donaldson, Scott, > 1928-2020.
Donaldson, Scott, > 1928-2020
Biography as a literary form.
Authors > Biography > Authorship.
Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Biographers.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Biographes.
biographies (literary works)
biographers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Royalty.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Publishing.
Authors.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Topics in literary biography
  • The impossible craft
  • Case studies
  • The Cheever misadventure.

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