Rana Tekcan

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The Biographer and the Subject: A Study on Biographical DistancePaperback, 1 March 2010

The Biographer and the Subject: A Study on Biographical Distance
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Part of Series
Studies in English Literatures
Print Length
178 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Ibidem Press
Date Published
1 Mar 2010
ISBN-10
389821995X
ISBN-13
9783898219952

Description

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".

Product Details

Author:
Rana Tekcan
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 March 2010
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 0.97 cm
ISBN-10:
389821995X
ISBN-13:
9783898219952
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
178
Publisher:
Weight:
217.72 gm

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