Literary lives : biography and the search for understanding /

David Ellis meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually describe their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ellis, David, 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Authors > Biography > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Écrivains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Biographies.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Biography as a literary form
Biografie
Literatur
Literaire biografie.
Englisch.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Lives without Theory
  • Ch. 2. Biography and Explanation
  • Ch. 3. Ancestors
  • Ch. 4. Primal Scenes
  • Ch. 5. Body Matters
  • Ch. 6. The Sociological Imagination
  • Ch. 7. History, Chance and Self-determination
  • Ch. 8. Compatibility, Sartre and Long Biographies
  • Ch. 9. 'Dignity and Uses of Biography'

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